beautypg.com

Nac framework components – IBM Tivoli and Cisco User Manual

Page 497

background image

Appendix B. Network Admission Control

479

NAC Framework components

The NAC Framework provides the following technology support:

Broad network device support for campus LANs, WANs, VPNs, and wireless
access points

Ties to third-party host assessment tools for unmanned,

agentless

, and other

nonresponsive devices, and is able to apply a different policy to each device

Broad platform support for the Cisco Trust Agent

Extends multivendor integration, with application and operating system status
checks that go far beyond antivirus and basic operating system patches

The NAC Framework is supported by the following technologies:

Cisco routers:

– Cisco 83x, 18xx, 28xx, and 38xx series integrated services routers
– 1701, 1711, 1712, 1721, 1751, 1751-V, and 1760 modular access routers
– 2600XM, 2691, 3640, and 3660-ENT multiservice access routers
– 72xx Series routers

Cisco switches:

– Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Supervisor Engine 2, 32, and 720, with Cisco

Catalyst OS, Cisco IOS Software, or hybrid applications (Cisco IOS
Software support on Supervisor Engine 32 and 720)

– Cisco Catalyst 4000 Series Supervisor Engine II+, II+TS, IV, V, and

V-10GE, with Cisco IOS Software

– Cisco Catalyst 4948 and 4948-10GE

– Cisco Catalyst 3550, 3560, and 3750, with Cisco IOS IP base and IP

services

– Cisco Catalyst 2940, 2950, 2955, 2960, 2970

Cisco wireless access: Cisco Aironet access points, Cisco Aironet lightweight
access points connected to a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller, the Cisco
Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless LAN Services Module (WLSM), and all Cisco
Aironet, Cisco Compatible, and Wi-Fi client devices with an IEEE 802.1X
supplicant that supports NAC

Cisco VPN 3000 Series concentrators

Cisco Trust Agent

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS)

Third-party vendor software