5. Security Considerations

Dieser Abschnitt bewahrt den RFC-Text fuer network fault and problem management terminology, einschliesslich Event, State, Fault, Problem, Symptom, Cause, Alert, Alarm, workflow figures, security, privacy und IANA considerations.

5.  Security Considerations

   This document specifies terminology and has no direct effect on the
   security of implementations or deployments.  However, protocol
   solutions and management models need to be aware of several aspects:

   *  The exposure of information pertaining to Faults and Problems may
      make available knowledge of the internal workings of a network (in
      particular, its vulnerabilities) that may be of use to an
      attacker.

   *  Systems that generate management information (messages,
      notifications, etc.) when Faults occur may be attacked by causing
      them to generate so much information that the system that manages
      the network is swamped and unable to properly manage the network.

   *  Reporting false information about Faults (or masking reports of
      Faults) may cause the system that manages the network to function
      incorrectly.