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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.

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