I think were talking about something different.

You mention that the difference is in the values you match on. That's when
you create the actual conditions (PA:OS, Host:Hotfixes, Host:Kernel etc).

After that you assign a posture token to the condition set.....the option is
Cisco:Host or Cisco:PA (healthy, quarantine etc etc)

If you create an AND logic condition that includes Cisco:PA and Cisco:Host
match statement - they all still need to match before it can assign a token
right? So when choosing the type of token to assign, why would you assign a
Cisco:Host token over a Cisco:PA token?

Sorry for battering this to death, but I'm not quite getting it.

Regards,

Paul








On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Brandon Carroll <[email protected]>wrote:

> The difference is in the values you are matching on.
>
>
> Regards,
>
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> On Apr 10, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Paul Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Okay, I think I get some of that. Here's the example i'm confused by:
>
> *Condition 1*
> Cisco:PA:OS-Type contains Windows 2000
> AND
> Cisco:Host:Hotfixes=KB14478
>
> Posture Token= Cisco:Host:Healthy
>
> *Condition 2*
> Default
>
> Posture Token Cisco:Host:Quarantine
>
>
>
> Now in this case, what is the difference in me using Cisco:Host instead of
> Cisco:PA for the posture tokens (healthy and quarantine)??
>
>
> Thanks for all your help mate, its appreciated.
>
>
> Paul.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Brandon Carroll < <[email protected]>
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I understand.  It can be frustrating.
>>
>> So basically yes you need the CTA to get the posture information back to
>> ACS.  Take a read of this:  
>> <http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/cta/admin_guide/ctaPlugn.html#wp1043483>
>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/cta/admin_guide/ctaPlugn.html#wp1043483
>>  and if it's still giving you a hard time let me know.
>>
>> Basically you have application posture tokens that can be different.  so-
>> Cisco:Host values can posture to healthy and Cisco:PA can posture to
>> Quarantine.  Then of the two different application posture tokens ACS takes
>> the lowest value, in this case Quarantine and assigns that as the System
>> Posture Token.  Here is another way to look at it.
>>
>> Lets say you want to see the following:
>>
>> Cisco:Host:HotFixes=KB65643
>> and that equals Healthy else assign Quarantine as the Application Posture
>> Token.
>>
>> and
>>
>> Cisco:PA:OS-Type=Windows XP Professional
>> and that equals Healthy lse assign Quarantine as the Application Posture
>> Token.
>>
>> If both items are true the System Posture Token would be Healthy.
>>
>> If only 1 is true the other will assign the Application Posture Token of
>> Quarantine and ACS looks at both, picks the lowest and assigns the System
>> Posture Token to Quarantine.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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>>
>>
>> On Apr 10, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Paul Alexander wrote:
>>
>> ssign a token of 'Cisco:PA Healthy' as opposed to 'Cisc
>>
>>
>>
>
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