Oracle X5-2 Security Guide

Oracle Hardware Management Pack Security
Oracle Hardware Management Pack Security
Oracle Hardware Management Pack is available for your server, and for many other Oracle
x86-based servers and some Oracle SPARC-based servers. Oracle Hardware Management Pack
features two components: an SNMP monitoring agent and a family of cross-operating system
command-line interface tools (CLI Tools) for managing your server.
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Use Hardware Management Agent SNMP Plugins.
SNMP is a standard protocol used to monitor or manage a system. With the Hardware
Management Agent SNMP Plugins, you can use SNMP to monitor Oracle servers in your
data center with the advantage of not having to connect to two management points, the host
and Oracle ILOM. This functionality enables you to use a single IP address (the host’s IP
address) to monitor multiple servers.
The SNMP Plugins run on the host operating system of Oracle servers. The SNMP Plugin
module extends the native SNMP agent in the host operating system to provide additional
Oracle MIB capabilities. Oracle Hardware Management Pack itself does not contain an
SNMP agent. For Linux, a module is added to the net-snmp agent. For Oracle Solaris, a
module is added to the Oracle Solaris Management Agent. For Microsoft Windows, the
Plugin extends the native SNMP service. Any security settings related to SNMP for the
Oracle Hardware Management Pack are determined by the settings of the native SNMP
agent or service, and not by the Plugin.
Note that SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c provide no encryption and use community strings as a
form of authentication. SNMPv3 is more secure and is the recommended version to use
because it employs encryption to provide a secure channel, as well as individual user names
and passwords.
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Refer to the Oracle Hardware Management Pack documentation.
Refer to the Oracle Hardware Management Pack documentation for more information about
these features. For security guidelines that are specific to Oracle Hardware Management
Pack, refer to the Oracle Hardware Management Pack (HMP) Security Guide, which is part
of the Oracle Hardware Management Pack documentation library. You can find the Oracle
Hardware Management Pack documentation at:
http://www.oracle.com/goto/OHMP/docs
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Oracle X5-2 Specifications

General

Number of Processors	2
Cores per Processor	Up to 18
Form Factor	2U Rackmount
Processor	Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3
Memory	Up to 768 GB DDR4
Power Supply	1200W
Operating System	Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris
Network	4 x 10Gb Ethernet ports