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Chapter 6. Compliance subsystem implementation

This chapter describes the IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager part of the Network Admission Control (NAC) solution, where the main concern is the establishment of security policy.

We describe the process of setting up the compliance components, which includes:

￿Installation and configuration of Tivoli Security Compliance Manager server

￿Installation of the policy collector and the Tivoli Configuration Manager-based remediation handler collectors onto the Tivoli Security Compliance Manager server

￿Configuration of the security compliance policy for the desktops. There are two major parts:

Providing the policy with the suitable remediation workflow names and parameters

Assigning the policy to Security Compliance Manager clients

￿Deployment of the client software, which includes two parts:

Installation of the Cisco Trust Agent Software

Installation of the Tivoli Security Compliance Manager client

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