Administrator's Guide

Conﬁguration

Summary

Chapter 2

Summary

This chapter describes how to conﬁgure your HP-UX HIDS System Manager and Agent

software. For information on installing the software, please refer to the Release Notes

cited in “Documentation” on page 2.

The topics include:

• “Setting Up the HP-UX HIDS Secure Communications” on page 20

• “Conﬁguring a Multihomed Agent System” on page 25

• “Conﬁguring a Multihomed Administration System” on page 27

• “Conﬁguring a Loopback System” on page 29

• “Conﬁguring Ports” on page 30

• “Enabling Large Numbers of Agents” on page 31

• “Restricting Permissions” on page 33

• “Accessing Manpages” on page 33