Re: [fw-wiz] Query on OS hardening

From: Volker Tanger (volker.tanger@discon.de)
Date: 02/17/03

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To: firewall-wizards@honor.icsalabs.com
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:57:40 +0100

    Greetings!

    m p wrote:
    > --- Tim Chettle <tim.chettle@orange.net> schrieb:
    >
    >>My question is as to what methods people use to manage and monitor the
    >>underlying Unix operating systems on the firewalls. SNMP doesnt seem the
    >>best thing to be running on the Firewall itself so how would people suggest
    >>that i monitore the OS

    Quite easy: SSH with distributed keys plus some simple shell scripting.
    See e.g. http://www.wyae.de/aslcheck/ for examples. Main advantage is
    that you won't need to install anything (fancy) on the system in question.

    Bye

    Volker Tanger
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