Configuration/Change Management - Alcatel-Lucent Security Management Server (SMS) Release 9.4 Technical Overview

Alcatel-Lucent Security Management Server (SMS)

Configuration/Change Management

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Overview
Each object modification performed by an administrator is logged by the SMS in the
Administrative Event Log. Additionally, the full and complete state of that object
post-modification is stored in an additional Change History folder on the SMS host, in
an individual file for each time the object is modified. This file is then hashed using an
HMAC, and the hash stored in the Administrative Event log.
An SMS utility provides a mechanism to verify that the hash in the log file matches
that in the Change History folder.
The Change History files are stored in a format that is easily pushed back into the
SMS via the SMS Command Line mechanism (see below).
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Issue 1, June 2009