health checking hpux

[Larry J Jones]

First, I am a aix admin and a new account has several hpux servers running different versions of OS. I have a need to run health checking on these boxes. Is there a utility that will accomplish this feat for hpux security ?

[Pete Randall]

You should take a look at "Bastille", a utility provided by HP to run security checks on HP-UX machines. Unfortunately, I can't get into http://software.hp.com at the moment to find a URL for you.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

Finally:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6849AA


Pete

[whiteknight]

Larry,

I would recommend you use HP-UX Software Assistant
HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA) is a command-line based tool that consolidates and simplifies patch management and security bulletin management on HP-UX systems. The SWA tool is new for HP-UX releases as of January 2007, includes Security Patch Check (SPC), and is the HP-recommended utility to use to maintain currency with HP-published security bulletins for HP-UX software.


http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6834AA

WK

[Emil Velez]

if you are looking at ongoing security monitoring for logins, creation of world writable files, and other types of activity you have SMSE auditing and IDS 9000