20.3 NON-RPC AGENTSVulnerabilities in the RPC services have prompted a move toward OpenView communications agents that no longer rely upon the RPCs. The security issues related to the RPC services are documented at the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) Incident Note IN-99-04 at http://www.cert.org/incident_notes/IN-99-04l. For now, OVO will continue to support the use of RPC-based communication (with the recommended security patches for RPC installed) and non-RPC-based communications. However, as of OVO 8.0, the HTTPS-based agent has been introduced. Read additional information on the non-RPC-based communication model in the DCE RPC Communication without Endpoint Mapper White Paper, available at http://ovweb.external.hp.com/lpe/doc_serv/. |