Installation guide

4.5 Customizing System Security
The system security tasks of the administrator range from the protection of
physical components of the system and its environment to the
implementation of an organization’s security policies.
Two manuals in the Tru64 UNIX documentation set describe
security-related tasks. Refer to the following documents for information
about administering local system security:
• The Technical Overview briefly describes the security components of the
Tru64 UNIX operating system.
• The Security manual is the principal source of security-related
information for Tru64 UNIX users, administrators, and programmers
dealing with the security components. Use this manual to administer
security on an Tru64 UNIX operating system.
4.6 Customizing Performance Monitors
The following sections discuss how you set up and use some of the
performance monitoring components of the Tru64 UNIX operating system:
• Monitoring Performance History
• Performance Monitor
• Performance Manager
• X-windows graphical interfaces.
• Tru64 UNIX performance monitoring commands and scripts
• The
sys_check utility
4.6.1 Using the Monitoring Performance History (MPH) Utility
The Monitoring Performance History (MPH) utility gathers timely and
accurate information on the reliability and availability of the Tru64 UNIX
operating system and its hardware environment.
MPH is a suite of shell scripts that copy error log and crash dump
information twice per week. The information is automatically copied to
Compaq for analysis via Internet Mail. After analysis, reports are
generated and distributed to the users of this information, namely Software
and Hardware Engineering, Manufacturing, and Compaq Services. This
data is internally secure to Compaq and will be used exclusively for
monitoring purposes.
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