HP Access Control Client Software manual Preliminary Decisions for Testing Method

Designing Access Controls

Choose Endpoint Integrity Testing Methods

Example. After totaling all of the methods that seem desirable according to one factor or another (see Table 3-54), the PCU network administrators decide that the NAC EI agent and the ActiveX agent are the most useful testing methods in the public zones. They will install the agent on computers in computer labs, and they will train support staff in guiding guests through automatically installing the agent.

The NAC EI agent also suits the private and remote zones. The network administrators will publish the NAC EI agent in the directory to deploy it to all endpoints in the private zone. Endpoints in the private zones are members of the domain, so agentless testing is a viable backup option.

Table 3-54. Preliminary Decisions for Testing Method

Factor	Public Wired	Private Wired	Public Wireless	Private Wireless	Remote
Administrative control	ActiveX	Agentless	ActiveX	NAC EI agent	ActiveX
	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	ActiveX	NAC EI agent
Post-connect testing	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent
	ActiveX	Agentless	ActiveX	Agentless	ActiveX
User sophistication	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent
	ActiveX	Agentless	ActiveX	Agentless	ActiveX
		ActiveX		ActiveX
Administrative workload	ActiveX	ActiveX	ActiveX	ActiveX	ActiveX
	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent
		Agentless		Agentless
Network overhead	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent
	ActiveX	ActiveX	ActiveX	ActiveX	ActiveX
Totals	NAC EI agent: 5	NAC EI agent: 5	NAC EI agent: 5	NAC EI agent: 5	NAC EI agent: 5
	ActiveX: 5	ActiveX: 3	ActiveX: 5	ActiveX: 4	ActiveX: 5
		Agentless: 4		Agentless: 3
Selections	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent	NAC EI agent
	ActiveX	Agentless	ActiveX	Agentless	ActiveX

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