Enterprises using a key network management product from Hewlett-Packard may be vulnerable to a serious flaw allowing remote attacks, the company has warned. The problem is in Network Node Manager, an HP OpenView product that carries out auto-discovery, control and monitoring of network devices via SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol). A patch isn't yet available.
In a previous column, I described a simple client program for sending and receiving SOAP messages over HTTP. Because of the exciting reader response, I made a few promises to explore Web services programming for the server.