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NMAP Agent: Trusted Hosts
Although trusted host relationships
are not required, they can be set up in distributed systems to
improve performance. Without the trusted host relationship, agent
hosts are forced to authenticate to the NMAP Agent in order to
communicate with it (this authentication does not use clear-text
passwords). The message store and message queue can be accessed,
modified, or deleted by applications running on trusted hosts.
Important: Use caution when
creating trusted hosts relationships, because trusted hosts have
complete access to all mailboxes and all queued messages.
Additionally, trusted host status should not be granted to Solaris
or Linux machines unless login access to the trusted host machines
is restricted to the system administrator.
Trusted Hosts In the
IP Address box, type the IP address of each server hosting NIMS
agents that need open access to the NMAP Agent > click
Apply to save the list of trusted hosts. |