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Chapter 2
Services
This chapter describes the following topics:
l Services Architecture and Flow
l Start Here: About Policy Manager Service Templates
l Viewing the List of Services
l Configuring Policy Manager Services
The Policy Manager policy model groups policy components that serve a specific type of request into the
Services page.
Services Architecture and Flow
Service Classification
Policy Manager services are classified as follows:
l Parents of their policy components, which are wrapped hierarchically and coordinated in processing
requests.
l Siblings of other Policy Manager services within an order that determine the sequence in which they are
tested against requests.
l Children of Policy Manager, which test requests against their rules to find a matching service for each
request.
Service Flow Control
The flow control for requests follows this sequence:
1. Policy Manager tests for the first request-to-service-rule match.
2. The matching service coordinates execution of its policy components.
3. Those policy components process the request to return enforcement profiles to the network access device
and, optionally, return the posture results to the client.
Approaches to Creating a New Service
There are two approaches to creating a new service in W-ClearPass:
Bottom-Up
1. Create all the policy components first as needed:
n Authentication method
n Authentication source
n Role-mapping policy
n Posture policy
n Audit servers
n Enforcement profiles
n Enforcement policy
2. Create the service using the Service creation wizard.
Top-Down
1. Start with the Service creation wizard.