What kind of security does Sun Management Center offer?
Communication between the Server Layer and the Console is secured by authentication. By default, messages sent from the Console are authenticated by the Server Layer. To have the Console authenticate messages from the Server Layer, select the “strong” security scheme in the Login Window’s “Options” dialog. Logins are validated with the password and group files on the Server Layer host. NOTE: Selecting a strong security scheme will slow the display of data on the console. Sun Management Center users that are listed in the ‘esusers’ file are considered general users, i.e. they are given permission to view data, trigger refreshes, and graph data but they may not create objects, set alarms, load modules, enable logging, etc. These administrative functions are limited to members of the groups esdomadm and esadm, as listed in the file ‘/etc/group’. Admin users also have all the privileges of general users. NOTE: The ‘/var/optSUNWsymon/cfg/esusers’ and ‘/etc/group’ files must reside on the sa
