Management and Monitoring Services should be secured to ensure protection of all components and the database.
The software is designed to work in a secured network, behind a firewall. Make sure all the components are within a secured network or firewall.
The database contains network topology information, that is vulnerable to hacking. Make sure the database is protected.
MMS uses SNMP v1, which does not support any protection, because the community name is transferred in clear-text format. For SNMP communication to NetWare servers, there is an option to use SNMP over NCP, which ensures that authentication does not use any community names, but still has valid NCP connections. SNMP over NCP is not supported for Windows.
Log files might contain information about the database user name, passwords, and community string if the debug option is set to a high level. Use high debug levels only when necessary to assist in debugging, and only for a limited time.