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The aixmibd daemon must be disabled on AIX.

An XCCDF Rule

Description

The aixmibd daemon is a dpi2 sub-agent which manages a number of MIB variables. To prevent attacks this daemon should not be enabled unless there is no alternative.

ID
SV-215366r958478_rule
Version
AIX7-00-003061
Severity
Medium
References
Updated

Remediation Templates

A Manual Procedure

In "/etc/rc.tcpip", comment out the "aixmibd" entry by running command: 
# chrctcp -d aixmibd