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Re: MRTG, RT, WiKi,


From: "Pace, Guy" <gpace () CIS CTC EDU>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:42:53 -0700

That should depend on your institutional security policy, assuming it
addresses community names for SNMP. You might want to check with your
campus IT folks for that information.
 
Guy L. Pace, CISSP 
Security Administrator 
Center for Information Services (CIS) 
3101 Northup Way, Suite 100 
Bellevue, WA 98004 
425-803-9724 

gpace () cis ctc edu 


 
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From: ron behrang [mailto:ron4peace () YAHOO COM] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 12:36 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] MRTG, RT, WiKi,


Thanks so much. The community names change from default to what?
 


John Bambenek <bambenek () CONTROL CSL UIUC EDU> wrote:

        For #2, yes you'd need snmp enabled on whatever you want to scan
and snmp "client" software installed on whatever the scanning machine
is.  The command "snmpwalk" is particularly helpful is seeing all the
data you can pull out of SNMP (it's ALOT).  You should be cautious to
properly secure SNMP by restricting what can query a target (especially
making sure that read-write is not enabled) and filtering it at the
firewall.  You should also change community names from the default.
         
        --
        John C. A. Bambenek, Research Programmer
        Coordinated Science Lab, University of Illinois
        217-265-6723
        
         

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        From: ron behrang [mailto:ron4peace () YAHOO COM] 
        Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 1:30 PM
        To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
        Subject: [SECURITY] MRTG, RT, WiKi,
        
        
        Hello All,
        
        I need to start working on the following projects and need some
help and pointers. 
        If you have worked on any of these and have some pointers,
not-to-dos and dos and
        any good papers on them, I would appreciate it, if you could
share your experience
        with me.
        
        1. After installing and configuring the Moin-Moin WiKi on w2k3,
I need to do LDAP integration to AD work.
        2.  I've installed the MRTG, but need help to configure and
begin to track down some network interfaces, do I need to use SNMP for
this?
        3) Helpdesk s/w, whether it's RT, or other s/w you can
recommend.
        
        
        Thanks in advance
        Ron
        
        
        



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