IBM Tivoli and Cisco manual Establishing the policy collector parameters

Establishing the policy collector parameters

At this point, we have to establish the posture policy version because this has a direct bearing on how the network access control permissions will be set. Figure 5-4shows a logical view of the Tivoli Security Compliance Manager client components.

	SCM Client
		Posture
		Collector
	Posture	Posture	SCM
			Policy
	Cache	Collector
		Posture
		Collector
Cisco	Policy Collector
Components
	Posture
	Plug-in

Figure 5-4 Tivoli Security Compliance Manager client components

The policy collector gathers data from the posture collectors and passes it to the posture plug-in, after which it is forwarded to the Cisco components for the access decision. See “Compliance client” on page 48 for more about these client components.

Tip: Other terms used to describe the unique nature of the policy collector

include management collector, meta-collector, and hypervisor.

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