Appendix A Cisco Security Agent Installation and Overview

Downloading and Installing

Figure A-1 Optional Agent Reboot

If a system is not rebooted following the agent installation, the following functionality is not immediately available. (This functionality becomes available the next time the system is rebooted.)

Windows agents

Network Shield rules are not applied until the system is rebooted.

Network access control rules only apply to new socket connections. Network server services should be stopped and restarted for full network access control security without a system reboot.

Data access control rules are not applied until the web server service is restarted.

Solaris and Linux agents, when no reboot occurs after install, the following caveats exist

Network access control rules only apply to new socket connections. Network server services should be stopped and restarted for full network access control security without a system reboot.

Buffer overflow protection is only enforced for new processes.

File access control rules only apply to newly opened files.

Data access control rules are not applied until the web server service is restarted.

 

 

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Cisco Systems DOC-78-17916 manual Figure A-1 Optional Agent Reboot