Re: Monitor Services on Windows machines

From: Avleen Vig (work@silverwraith.com)
Date: 02/26/03

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From: Avleen Vig <work@silverwraith.com>
To: Robert Formanek <robert.formanek@wipo.int>

    > > Wouldn't restarting services automatically, when you don't know why they
    > > died, generally be a bad thing?
    > I assumed that we are talking about workstations where user do
    > something stupid or a SNMP service on a machine responsible to send
    > out tens of thousands of mails. In these described scenarios I'd
    > rather have a automated restart. And, you may setup a utility to only
    > restart the service twice - if it fails again, a manual restart has to
    > be done.

    Ok, I accept that there are some situation where an automatic restart
    may be an option. I still feel it's a bad idea. I mean, isn't it better
    to find out *why* a produciton system just went offline, before blindly
    bringing it back?
    This partly assumes you have some form of redundancy.

    > > The security implications are horrible! :-)
    > That may depend on the Security officer ;-)

    Absolutely not!
    Security is absolutely *not* the sole responsibility of the Security
    Officer. It is the responsibility of *every employee*.
    The responsibility of the security officer is to ensure that proper
    security guidelines are being met.

    If you're a server admin you are the first person responsible for the
    security on the server, and that means you shouldn't be doing anything
    that you know could lead to a compromise!

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