HPCmd - Security Analysis

The HPCmd Utility is used by Universal Discovery to establish a shell connection to remote Windows machines in order to execute commands for extracting important configuration information for population in the UCMDB.

The HPCmd Utility is used by Universal Discovery where the SSH protocol is not available on Windows machines.The utility behaves similarly to the PSEXEC tool available from Microsoft. For details about PSEXEC, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx.

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