[ale] snmp monitoring and security concerns

[ostrowb at tblc.org (Ben Ostrowsky)]

> Anyone have any real-world advice on this particular balance of
> security-vs-useful tool? 

Try not to let SNMP traffic through your firewall except as necessary;
*most* script kiddies are on the external interface.  Change your
community names to something other than "public", "private", etc.

Ben


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