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Chapter 1 Overview
Cisco Secure ACS HTML Interface
• CSMonitor service, providing monitoring, notification, logging, and limited
automated failure response (see
Cisco Secure ACS Active Service
Management, page 8-17 ).
• Ability to automate configuration of users, groups, network devices, and
custom RADIUS VSAs (see
RDBMS Synchronization, page 9-25 ).
• Replication of CiscoSecure user database components to other Cisco Secure
ACSes (see
CiscoSecure Database Replication, page 9-1 ).
• Scheduled and on-demand Cisco Secure ACS system backups (see
Cisco Secure ACS Backup, page 8-9 ).
• Ability to restore Cisco Secure ACS configuration, user accounts, and group
profiles from a backup file (see
Cisco Secure ACS System Restore,
page 8-14 ).
Posture Validation
Cisco Secure ACS supports Network Admission Control (NAC) by providing
posture validation services to NAC-compliant AAA clients and the NAC-client
computers seeking network access using those AAA clients. NAC provides a
powerful means to defend your network. The data with which you can configure
Cisco Secure ACS to evaluate posture validation requests can include operating
system patch level and anti-virus DAT file versions and dates.
Instead of establishing identity, posture validation determines the state of the
NAC-client computer using data sent to Cisco Secure ACS by the NAC client.
Cisco Secure ACS uses the result of evaluating the state of the computer to
determine whether network access is to be granted from the computer and to
determine the degree of that access.
For more information, see Chapter 14, “Network Admission Control” .
Cisco Secure ACS HTML Interface
This section discusses the Cisco Secure ACS HTML interface and provides
procedures for using it.