IT Baseline Protection Manual - The Information Warfare Site

Threats Catalogue Deliberate Acts Remarks
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T 3.35 Disabling the server while in operation
If a network is managed through a management system, then there are servers
with special tasks (particularly in the area of system management). As a rule,
databases with management information are kept on what are known as
management servers. If such servers are simply disabled while in operation,
then data such as that contained in the computer's memory is no longer written
onto the file system. The consequence of this is that inconsistencies may also
occur in the management data when the computer is next switched on. Large
management systems therefore tend to use databases which use what are
known as transaction mechanisms to ensure that the information is converted
back into an (old) consistent state. This reduces the risk but does not
completely remove it and can even be used for perpetration (exploitation of an
old configuration with less restricted access rights).
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IT-Baseline Protection Manual: Oktober 2000