3 Administering Services Gatekeeper Security

This section explains the tasks required to manage a secure running Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper (Services Gatekeeper) implementation.

Administering Services Gatekeeper Security

Administering Services Gatekeeper securely includes the following tasks that are covered in the following sections:

• Maintaining Security Standards

• Securing Partner Relationship Manager

• Monitoring Your Services Gatekeeper Implementation

• Backing Up and Restoring Services Gatekeeper Data

Maintaining Security Standards

Your security-related day-to-day administrative tasks include maintaining security standards. For example:

• Only grant access to administrative users as they require it.

• Maintain your firewalls with an appropriate level of security.

• Monitor your Services Gatekeeper servers for unauthorized access attempts. See "Monitoring Your Services Gatekeeper Implementation" for details.

Securing Partner Relationship Manager

Secure the Services Gatekeeper Partner Relationship Manager (PRM) by securing the administrative users who administer it.

For details, see the discussion on security in Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Partner Relationship Management Guide.

Monitoring Your Services Gatekeeper Implementation

Services Gatekeeper includes tools to monitor the number of transactions your Services Gatekeeper is processing. These statistics are intended for calculating usage and grouping reports, but can also be valuable tools to alert you to denial of service attacks. See the discussion on managing and configuring statistics and transaction licenses in Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper System Administrator's Guide.

Services Gatekeeper provides a mechanism that alerts you to impending system overload using the WebLogic Overload Alarms feature. For details, see the discussion on overload alarms in Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper System Backup and Restore Guide.

Backing Up and Restoring Services Gatekeeper Data

Even in clustered, redundant systems, regular backups are an essential part of a secure Services Gatekeeper implementation. See these topics in Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper System Backup and Restore Guide for details on the tasks that provide help and advice on backing up and recovering Services Gatekeeper data:

• Redundancy and failover for clustered services

• Automatic restart for managed servers

• Managed server independence mode

• Automatic migration of failed managed servers

• Backing up the domain configuration.

• Restarting a failed administration server

• Restarting failed access and network tier servers

• Moving an access or network tier server to a different system.