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Chapter 10
Audit Servers
Audit Servers evaluate posture, role, or both, for unmanaged or unmanageable clients. One example could be clients
that lack an adequate posture agent or 802.1X supplicant. For example, printers, PDAs, or guest users might not be
able to send posture credentials or identify themselves. A Policy Manager Service can trigger an audit by sending a
client ID to a pre-configured audit server, and the server returns attributes for role mapping and posture evaluation.
Audit servers are configured at a global level. Only one audit server can be associated with a service. The flow-of-
control of the audit process is shown in the figure.
For more information, see "Configuring Audit Servers" on page 237.
Figure 218: Flow of Control of Policy Manager Auditing
Configuring Audit Servers
The Policy Manager server contains built-in Nessus (version 2.X) and NMAP servers. For enterprises with existing
audit server infrastructure, or otherwise preferring external audit servers, Policy Manager supports these servers
externally.
For more information, see: