IBM Tivoli and Cisco manual Posture collector, Compliance client logical component

The compliance client component (Figure 3-5)consists of the following modules:

￿Policy collector

￿Posture collector

￿Posture cache

￿Posture plug-in

￿Default remediation handler

SCM Client
	Collector
Posture Cache	Posture
	Collector
	Posture
	Collector
Policy Collector
Posture	Remediation
Plug-in	Handler

Figure 3-5 Compliance client logical component

Posture collector

A collector is a Java language-based software module, packaged as a Java Archive (JAR) file, that collects specific information from a client system. The collector may use different methods for collecting data depending on the compliance data to be gathered. Here are some examples:

￿Reading the content of one or more files on the client system

￿Running an operating system command or utility and examining the output

￿Running an executable program packaged as part of the collector JAR file and examining the output

￿Reading information from the registry on Windows systems

In a scenario where an organization is using a Security Compliance Manager solution independently, collectors are called Security Compliance Manager collectors. In this scenario, an Security Compliance Manager collector collects

compliance information and only reports it to the Security Compliance Manager server.

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