IBM Tivoli and Cisco manual Compliance client

Compliance evaluation Consisting of Security Compliance Manager snapshots and policies, these components centrally verify security compliance.

Note: You can find more details about these components in the IBM Redbook

Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Security Compliance Manager,

SG24-6450.

Compliance client

The client consists of modules that run on the endpoint to collect compliance information and report it to the Security Compliance Manager server. In the IBM Integrated Security Solution for Cisco Networks, the Security Compliance Manager client introduces a new posture plug-in that communicates with the Cisco Trust Agent required by Cisco to report posture data during the NAC process.

The Security Compliance Manager client is Java™-based software that runs on systems to be monitored for security compliance. By default, the client runs as a daemon with root authority on UNIX® systems, or as a service running under the local system account on Microsoft® Windows® systems. The client provides the runtime environment for collectors deployed to the system and handles communication with the server.

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