Avaya VisAbility Management Suite User Manual

Avaya VisAbility™ Management Suite
Release 1.2

Configuring Red Hat Linux

555-233-152

Issue 1

November 2002

Copyright 2002, Avaya Inc.
All Rights Reserved, Printed in U.S.A.

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was complete and accurate at the time of printing. However,
information is subject to change.

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Preventing Toll Fraud

Toll Fraud is the unauthorized use of your telecommuni cations
system by an unauthorized party (for example, a person who is not
a corporate employee, agent, subco ntractor, or working on your
company’s behalf). Be aware that there is a risk of t oll fra ud asso­ciated with your system and that, if toll fraud occurs, it can result
in substantial addition al charges for y o u r telecommu nications ser­vices.

Avaya Fraud Intervention

If you suspect that you are being victimized by toll fraud and you
need technical assistance or support, call the Technical Service
Center’s Toll Fraud Intervention Hotline at 1.800.643. 2353.

Providing Telecommunications Security

Telecommunications security of vo ice, data, and/o r vi deo commu­nications is the prevention of any type of intrusion to, that is,
either unauthorized or m al ic io u s ac ce ss to or use of, your com­pany’s telecommunications equipment by some party.

Your company’s “telecommunications e qui pment” includes both
this Avaya product and any other voice/data/video equipment that
could be accessed via this Avaya product (that is, “networked
equipment”).

Y o ur Responsibility for Your Company’s Telecommunications
Security

The final responsibility for securing both this system and its net­worked equipment re sts with you – an Avaya customer’s system
administrator, your telecommunications peers, and your managers.
Base the fulfillment of your responsibility on acquired knowledge
and resources from a variet y of sources including but not limited
to:

• Installation documents

• System administration documents

• Security documents

• Hardware-/software-based security tools

• Shared information bet w e en yo u and your peers

• Telecommunications security experts

To prevent intrusions to your telecommunications equipment, you
and your peers should carefully program and configure your:

• Avaya provided telecommunications systems and their
interfaces

• Avaya provided software appli cations, as well as their
underlying hardware/software platforms and interfaces

• Any other equipment networked to your Avaya products

Trademarks

See the preface of this document.

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An “outside party” is anyone who is not a corporate employee,
agent, subcontracto r, or working on your company’s behalf.
Whereas, a “malicious pa rty ” is Anyone, including someone wh o
may be otherwise authoriz ed, who accesses your telecommunica­tions equipment with either malicious or mischievous intent.

Such intrusions may be either to/throug h sync hronous (time-mul­tiplexed and/or circuit-b ase d) or a s ync hronous (character-, mes­sage-, or packet-based ) equipment or interfaces for reasons of:

• Utilization (of capabilities special to the accessed equip-

ment)

• Theft (such as, of intellectual property, financial assets, or
toll-facility access)

• Eavesdropping (privacy invasions to humans)

• Mischief (troubling, but apparently innocuous, tampering)

• Harm (such as harmful tampering, data loss or al terat i on,

regardl e s s of motive or intent)

Be aware that there may be a risk of unauthorized intrusions asso­ciated with your system and/or i ts ne tworked equipment. Also
realize that , if such an intrusion shoul d o ccur, it could result in a
variety of los s es to your company, including but not limited to,
human/data privacy, intellectual property, material assets, finan­cial resources, labor costs, and/or legal costs).

Obtaining Products

To learn more about Avaya products and to order products, contact
Avaya Direct, the direct-market organization of Avaya Business
Communications Systems. Access their web site at
www.avaya.com/direct or call 800-426-2455.

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The following additional books exist to help you during installation and configuration of
selected applications in the suite:

• Avaya VisAbility Management Suite Installation Overview, 555-233-148

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