[NTLUG:Discuss] Is it just me, or has traffic in this listreduced to a trickle recently?

[Paul Drew]

Howdy,
I have already started porting over all the csh scripts that I am finding 
thrown about the various servers. I am putting them into Perl so that I do 
have some crossover into other platforms with minimal fuss. I plan on doing 
some port scanning in the near future after I establish some baselines, and 
such. I also agree completely about standardizing things to make things 
easier now and in the future. Thanks for the advice, I go greatly appreciate 
it. Have a great day, and take care. Thanks

Paul Drew


>From: kbrannen at gte.net
>Reply-To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Is it just me, or has traffic in this 
>listreduced to a trickle recently?
>Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 02:04:10 -0500
>
>Paul Drew wrote:
>...
>>Most of these are Redhat boxes and they all seem to be hovering around 
>>7.2. Some are simple proxies, web servers, some are application servers, 
>>and some are workstations that interface with those application servers. 
>>There seems to be no real list or accounting for exactly what’s out there, 
>>and so a discovery and inventory is going to be needed to get the real 
>>scope.
>
>This is important.  You need to everything the same, as much as you can.  
>It will make your life much easier in the long run.
>
>...
>>Now that the money train has slowed with the rest of the economy we are 
>>having to rethink things, and deploy initiatives on an enterprise level 
>>rather than 1 facility and 1 solution at a time. As it stands now on any 
>>given day, I have to work with Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Backup Exec, 
>>Legato, FlashNet, Webnative, Retrospect, Toast, Easy CD creator, etc. 
>>Those are real backup software we have deployed and in place at different 
>>locations. This is just backup software, and doesn’t account for all the 
>>flavors of o/s I have to see, and the software that’s running on it. NT4, 
>>2000, .Net, Irix, Solaris, Linux, Mac os9, osX, etc. This is all getting 
>>changed, and we are turning things around the right way.
>
>The software that works on Linux is available on all the other *nix 
>platforms too.  You can use that to your advantage.  Writing platform 
>independent code (probably shell scripts for you) is a hassle, as some 
>vendors change the command line args to various tools.  ARGH!  If you can't 
>install the same OSS tools everywhere, you need at least 1 tool which can 
>be everywhere and is robust in options.  Obvious choices are Perl and Bash; 
>I prefer Perl (which works on MS platforms too, see www.activestate.com).
>
>...
>>>>... Currently I have been asked to take over management and
>>>>procedures for all Linux workstations, and servers enterprise wide. I am 
>>>>pretty excited about it. I have been asked to put together a list of all 
>>>>services that should be running, things that shouldn't. Make them all 
>>>>use ssh, and get rid of all the rsh, telnet, and such which is being 
>>>>used at random around the company. First they have to get me a list of 
>>>>whats out there and give me login information for it. It should be 
>>>>exciting, and a real challenge. :) Any tips? Have a great day, and take 
>>>>care.
>
>Your list is an excellent start.  You should also consider doing portscans 
>on your machines to find out what's visible and turn off everything you 
>don't really need.  "nmap" is an obvious candidate, but other tools like 
>"saint" are useful too.
>
>Be sure your "system inventory" also takes in your firewall, so you know 
>what's blocked and what's not.  Preferably, it should auto-block 
>attachments with known vulnerabilities (.exe, .pif, .bat, ...), or change 
>their names so they won't autorun.
>
>That's a good basic start.  HTH,
>
>Kevin
>
>
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