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Since scenarios 5 and 6 are the most complex, the sequence of events for these
scenarios is depicted in Figure 8-43.
Figure 8-43 Sequence of Events for Scenarios #5 and #6
Scenario 7 - pre-admission, Security Compliance Manager running,
compliant client
– NAC Appliance restarts admission process.
– Security Compliance Manager Client is running and semaphore = 1
– Admit client
Scenario 8 - post-admission, Security Compliance Manager running,
compliant client
– In this case, the semaphore should start as 1 since we have been
admitted.
– Windows Scheduler or cron job runs statuscheck.exe.
N AC A ppliance Agent
Sem aphore
T SC M Agent.exe
s tatusc hec k .exe
T SC M C lient
R em ediation U I
pquery
Violations >0
N AC Applianc e M anager
pnotify
Sem aphore?
Sem aphore=0
Sem aphore=0
Kick U ser
Authenticate
Sem aphore?
Sem aphore<1
Quarantine
Exec ute
Sem aphore=0
S em aphore=-1
Exec ute
pquery
Violations >0
pnotify
Sem aphore?
Sem aphore=-1
Ex ecute
R em ediate
R esc an
Sem aphore=1
Sem aphore?
Sem aphore=1
Adm it
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