[nylug-talk] constant port number for rstatd?

[Brian Gupta]

Push back... Make them work around your security standards.. With a
little extra work they can do it without telnet, etc..

On Dec 27, 2007 11:50 AM, C Thala <cthala at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 25, 2007 1:12 AM, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What are you using rstatd for? I just realized, I disabled it on all
> > of my servers years ago.. (I think some RPC based performance
> > monitoring tools are all we were using it for.).
>
> PHBs here purchased a load testing tool (for a cool quarter million)
> that requires it.
>
> One would think that a load testing tool that costs a quarter million
> would use modern tools, but this particular product (HP/Mercury
> LoadRunner), looks like it was written in the late 80s/early 90s and
> hasn't been updated since then.
>
> No joke: the consultant who came onsite to install it told us that it
> required telnet daemons to be turned on all boxes -- I nearly had a
> heart attack.
>
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