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HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Security Management: HP-UX 11i Version 3 > Chapter 7 Compartments

Using Discover Mode to Generate Initial Compartment Configuration

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A compartment definition can be tagged with the keyword discover. See Section . The discover keyword instructs the system to discover all of the rules necessary to make the application function correctly. This feature is intended to only be used in a test environment.

To use discover mode, mark a compartment as discover and run the application as you normally would. The system identifies all resource accesses and creates the required rules.

After the initial execution of the application, use the getrules –m compartment_name command to generate a machine readable version of rules.

The system generated rules are required to make the application function successfully in the test environment, but may need to be generalized. For example, the system may generate a rule that involves a port number in anonymous port range, where the kernel, not the application, selects the port number. When the application is run again, it may end up with a different port number, requiring a different rule. The rule may need to be generalized such that either all ports or at least the port numbers in the anonymous port range are specified.

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