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Chapter 6. compliance subsystem implementation, Compliance subsystem implementation – IBM Tivoli and Cisco User Manual

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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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