Re: Log of IP connections with UserId?

Chris Bipes wrote:

Exit points and most commercial products will log all traffic to IBM
supplied applications such as net server, telnet, ftp, etc.. It will
not log connections to in house written TCP/IP applications. For those
your application developers will have to log the connections with the IP
and logon info, if you have a logon. If the third party provides an
interface for your developers, go with it.

This is very true.

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Recent releases of our Network Security product have included a feature called 'Generic Exit Program' for this purpose. We provide it as an API for customer use. The same Network Security database of rules and the same patterns of enforcement can be used by customer-written sockets applications through this 'exit-program' API.

Customer defines a "server-function" name in the rules database, enters rules for access to reject or allow users or locations, and adds the API call to their application. Allow or Reject is passed back from the call; auditing and/or messaging capability is the same as any other server covered by Network Security.

Access to the API can be determined by querying the system registration facility. This allows a custom app to adapt on different systems when a customer has multiple System i sites.

This is a developing technology but we've had some encouraging results. We're always looking for customer feedback.
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Tom Liotta