4.7. SIMP Administration

This chapter provides guidance on general administration practices applicable to SIMP environments.

Important

It is important to remember that SIMP approaches system configuration from a least privilege, defense in depth, mindset where possible.

• 4.7.1. Classification and Data
  • 4.7.1.1. Node Classification in SIMP
  • 4.7.1.2. Hiera in SIMP
  • 4.7.1.3. Assigning Classes to Nodes
  • 4.7.1.4. Assigning Defined Types to Nodes
  • 4.7.1.5. SIMP Scenarios
  • 4.7.1.6. The SIMP Compliance Engine
  • 4.7.1.7. SIMP File Structure
  • 4.7.1.8. Second Modulepath
  • 4.7.1.9. Hiera
• 4.7.2. Deploying SIMP Environments
  • 4.7.2.1. SIMP Environments
  • 4.7.2.2. Deployment Scenarios
  • 4.7.2.3. Local Module Repositories
  • 4.7.2.4. SIMP CLI Commands for Environment Management
  • 4.7.2.5. Examples for Deploying SIMP Environments
• 4.7.3. Integrating Applications
  • 4.7.3.1. IPTables
  • 4.7.3.2. Local Access Controls
  • 4.7.3.3. Service Kill
• 4.7.4. General Administration
  • 4.7.4.1. Package Management
  • 4.7.4.2. Nightly Updates
  • 4.7.4.3. Session Auditing
  • 4.7.4.4. User Accounts
  • 4.7.4.5. Certificate Management
  • 4.7.4.6. The SIMP Utility
  • 4.7.4.7. Graphical User Interfaces
• 4.7.5. Apply Certificates
  • 4.7.5.1. Installing Official Certificates
  • 4.7.5.2. Generating Infrastructure Certificates from the Fake CA