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The compliance client component (Figure 3-5) consists of the following modules:
Policy collector
Posture collector
Posture cache
Posture plug-in
Default remediation handler
Figure 3-5 Compliance client logical component
Posture collector
A collector is a Java language-based software module, packaged as a Java
Archive (JAR) file, that collects specific information from a client system. The
collector may use different methods for collecting data depending on the
compliance data to be gathered. Here are some examples:
Reading the content of one or more files on the client system
Running an operating system command or utility and examining the output
Running an executable program packaged as part of the collector JAR file
and examining the output
Reading information from the registry on Windows systems
In a scenario where an organization is using a Security Compliance Manager
solution independently, collectors are called
Security Compliance Manager
collectors
. In this scenario, an Security Compliance Manager collector collects
compliance information and
only reports it to the Security Compliance Manager
server.
SCM Client
Posture Cache
Collector
Posture
Collector
Posture
Collector
Policy Collector
Remediation
Handler
Posture
Plug-in
