Cisco Systems OL-20932-02 manual Cisco Physical Access Manager

Chapter 1 Overview

System Overview

Cisco Physical Access Manager

The Cisco Physical Access Manager appliance (Cisco PAM) is a hardware and software solution that provides advanced configuration, monitoring, and report generation for the entire system. Each Cisco Physical Access Gateway is connected to the Cisco PAM appliance over an Ethernet-based IP network, as shown in Figure 1-2 on page 1-3. A Java-based desktop application is installed on a PC connected to the network, and used to configure and monitor the system, as shown in Figure 1-3.

Figure 1-3 Configuring and Monitoring Using the Cisco Physical Access Manager

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Cisco PAM Configuration Interface

	Cisco PAM
	Appliance
	IP Network
Direct Ethernet	Network
Connection	Connection

Cisco PAM

Desktop Software

(Java Thin Clients)

Cisco Physical Access Gateway User Guide

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