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  • mbrijun
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    • Mar 2006
    • 63

    #1

    Secure database monitoring

    Hello,

    we are trying to start monitoring our MS SQL servers with Zabbix. All would be good, however it looks like the DSN connection strings are written unencrypted into the "items" table. I feel this is not very secure. MSSQL ODBC driver for Linux, both FreeTDS and MS Native SQL driver, ignore any user credentials passed in the "odbc.ini" file.

    Short of writing my own script that would store the credentials securely, is there any other approach? I am reluctant to use my own script because that would probably reduce the performance greatly.
  • richlv
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    • Oct 2005
    • 3112

    #2
    the usual problem is that if somebody gains access to that data, they also gain access to whatever zabbix server can access, including decryption key[s]. so there usually isn't much point in encrypting such things
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    • JiP
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      • Nov 2011
      • 41

      #3
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      I'm sorry. My bad, my question isn't related with thist topic.

      Last edited by JiP; 03-03-2014, 14:45.

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