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Discover printers (SNMP and/or federated data and/or BigFix)
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Who owns, RIS? WINSYS can own these since they own queues. This is not desktop services. Many already open to SNMP & on the Internet. Remediation may be accomplished by level setting the SNMP creds. Non-networked printers are probably going to have to be imported by hand and managed by ITIL processes, unless desktop discovery can lend a hand.
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Discover desktops (WMI and/or federated CMDB)
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Gap analysis underway performed to compare Discovery with a BigFix integration, thinking ahead to HIPAA-tracker interfacing/replacement on the horizon. Macs Desktop folks choose to pursue an integration with BigFix/Tivoli Endpoint Manager.
Mac desktops are not equipped for Discovery and it may be hard to do this. (why?)We need to seriously consider the risk of SNMP or SSH Discovery.
There is a risk involved in deliberately opening WMI on machines with no network firewall protection. Opens new attack vector.
Discover data center (SNMP and/or federated CMDB)
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