Reply To: Network Monitor for Operator

[Gene Salay]

Here at Bon Secours we went for the Advanced Security and Global Monitor.   It made sense for us because we have a central operations area that manages systems for many sites.   We also have development staff at various sites.

We contracted with Quovadx to help us implement AdvSec and GM.     Living with it and managing users with it is not difficult.    I believe AdvSec has two different levels – one simply controls overall access via the GUI and the other provides access control for individual functions.     The whole system continues to operate as the hci user, so at the lower level of AdvSec there is no application auditing of modifications.   At the higher level, a database tracks all changes.    Users who have command line access can still modify files directly without being limited by the AdvSec certificate controls.

GM allows Ops to stop and start interfaces if you would like them to.  Note that Alerts also provide the ability to auto-bounce connections as appropriate.