Re: Unix newbie question

From: Karsten Farrell <kfarrell_at_medimpact.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:19:34 GMT
Message-ID: <qXEr9.750$%z2.35972255@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

Sybrand Bakker wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:28:07 GMT, spamdump_at_nospam.noway.nohow (Ed
> Stevens) wrote:

>>One of the 'daily' tasks is to check that the DBSNMP process is
>>running.  It states that there should be *two* dbsnmp processes running.  My
>>question is 'why two?'  On NT we only have one dbsnmp service.  When I log on to
>>my newly acquired AIX box and do 
>>
>>ps -ef | grep dbsnmp
>>
>>it seems to only list one process, though it's still all a bit cryptic to me.

>
> dbsnmp is the Oracle Intelligent Agent. OIA uses two ports by default,
> 1748 and 1754. (I would need to check in the doco the exact purpose,
> but one of the 2 ports handles jobs and the like)
> On Unix one process deals with 1748 and one with 1754. On closer look
> on NT you'd probably see 2 threads.

Perhaps it's an AIX thing. On my Solaris boxes, I have two dbsnmp processes running.

But funny you should mention dbsnmp. It seems to be a common target for hackers (since it runs as SETUID root). So you'll want to keep up with Oracle's security alerts on it. To see how prevalent it is, just do a Google search on 'dbsnmp' and you'll see vulnerabilities found in 8.1.6, 8.1.7, and 9i.

Not to make you paranoid, but maybe that's why it's a daily task to check on this program. And watch Metalink and OTN for security patches (or sign up to have Metalink send you regular security alert emails). Received on Thu Oct 17 2002 - 15:19:34 CDT

Re: Unix newbie question - dbsnmp