What does the value Communications Device in the Invalid Signon Attempts report Device column indica (NETIQKB31216)

Document ID:7731216
Creation Date:02-Feb-2007
Modified Date:08-Oct-2007
- Micro Focus Products:
  Security Solutions for iSeries

Resolution

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What does the value Communications Device in the Invalid Signon Attempts report Device column indicate?

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VigilEnt Security Agent for iSeries 7.5

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VigilEnt Security Agent for PSAudit 7.5

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NetIQ Security Solutions for iSeries 8.0

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PSAudit 8.0

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System Auditing and Reporting

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Communications Device entries are invalid signon attempts through any of the following host servers:

*CENTRAL
*DTAQ
*NETPRT
*SIGNON
*DATABASE
*FILE
*RMTCMD
*SVRMAP

IBM logs the information to QAUDJRN as Communications Device, so there is no way to distinguish which host server was used.

Additional Information

Formerly known as NETIQKB31216