IBM Tivoli and Cisco - Manual (Page 122)

104 Building a Network Access Control Solution with IBM Tivoli and Cisco Systems
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 5-4 shows a logical view of the Tivoli Security Compliance Manager client
components.
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
.
SCM Client
Posture
Cache
Posture
Collector
Posture
Collector
Posture
Collector
Policy Collector
Posture
Plug-in
SCM
Policy
Cisco
Components