> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:15 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Hardware Alerts > > This is an internal auditor and high availability is a high > priority to > our management. >
[snip] > > More, we manage our production environment by sending emails about > exception events. We feel like it works well for us. Extending that to > hardware management is a small step. Using what? Will it respond to a SNMP trap to send an email? > > Right now, we feel that the known risks associated with > interconnecting > these machines to the company LAN outweigh the potential benefit. But > this is all a living process and ya just gotta keep up to remain > competitive. If this is a worry, put all the sensitive hardware on one physical LAN segment. Connect that LAN segment to the rest of your internal LAN via a firewall/router. And use VLAN support. That will isolate your sensitive hardware from the "unwashed masses" on your LAN. The firewall can be configured to only allow outgoing SNMP connections to your SNMP server which will do the actual email paging. The firewall can stop ALL incoming connection requests / pings / whatever. This is about as secure as I can imagine anything being, short of powering it down. > > My task is to explore the issue and present management with options. > > And thanks for all the replies so far!! Keep 'em coming. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
