IBM Tivoli and Cisco manual Compliance reporting, Administration

Figure 3-4depicts Security Compliance Manager’s high-level component architecture, followed by a brief explanation.

	Compliance Report
	Components
	SCM	SCM
	Report	Operational
		Report
SCM			SCM
Admin GUI
			Snapshots
Administration
Components	SCM	SCM	Compliance Evaluation
	Server	Database	Components
SCM			SCM
Admin CLI
			Policies
	SCM Client	SCM Proxy
	SCM
	SCM
	SCM
	Collector
	Collector
	Collector	SCM Client
		SCMSCM
Windows Registry		Collector
		Collector
	Configuration	Router
	File
	Executable	Firewall
	Data Collection
	Components

Figure 3-4 IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager logical component architecture

Figure 3-4shows:

Administration components Consist of a graphical user interface and a command line interface (CLI). Used to manage the Security Compliance Manager components.

Data collection component Build a framework for collecting security-relevant configuration data from connected systems such as operating systems, middleware components, applications, firewalls, routers, and so on.

Compliance reporting	Deliver different kinds of configurable reports for
	audit purposes and correcting deviations.

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