On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:05:45 -0600, Jim Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
>One of our Cyber Security folks is putting up a "NOC" (Network Operations >Center) and they purchased something called SolarWinds. Now they are on my >doorstep saying they want to scan my system along with DB2 and Oracle data >bases. I am not sure what the question really is... Do they want to probe the z/OS in order to monitor all the processes that are going on in there? I believe that will not be easy... > This is COOL and then I asked how they intended to do this magic; hey we can > accept SNMP traffic. Who do you mean by "we"? Is that this Solarwind thing? If so, then the question boils down to sending out SNMP traps whenever something interesting is happening in z/OS. Sending traps is easy enough, but what are you going to use to decide when a trap needs sending? You'd require a monitoring tool à la Netview or something to do that, I guess. But if you have that, then what is the added value of Solarwinds? >He said we already knew how to do all of this So they know all about z/OS, DB2, etc. ? Doesn't show on their website if you ask me. But I could be wrong of course. Little war story: Some time ago, I was called out of bed by the operator on duty telling me that lots of CICS transaction were abending. Eventually, I found out that this was because network people had installed a port scanner and had let it loose on all the machines in the network. It took me even longer to convince them that "No, port 3087 is *NOT* trojan Such-and-So listening for commands from its master cracker." Cheers, Jantje. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
