About This Guide

February 17, 2009, OL-15633-01

This preface includes the following sections:

•Audience

•Purpose

•Document Conventions

•New Features in This Release

•Product Documentation

•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Audience

This guide is for network administrators who are planning to implement the Cisco NAC Profiler system to manage endpoints.

Purpose

This guide describes how to install and configure Cisco NAC Profiler. The Cisco NAC Profiler system consists of the Cisco NAC Profiler Server (shipped as a separate appliance) and the Cisco NAC Profiler Collector component which must be enabled on the Cisco NAC Appliance Clean Access Server.

See Product Documentation for further details on the document set for Cisco NAC Appliance.

Document Conventions

Item	Convention
Indicates command line output.	`Screen` font
Indicates information you enter.	Boldface screen font
Indicates variables for which you supply values.	Italic screen font
Indicates web admin console modules, menus, tabs, links and submenu links.	Boldface font
Indicates a menu item to be selected.	Administration > User Pages

New Features in This Release

For a brief summary of the new features and enhancements available in this release refer to the Release Notes for Cisco NAC Profiler, Release 2.1.8.

Product Documentation

Document Updates

Table 1 Updates to This Guide


Date	Description
1/20/09	Updated Table 7-2Collector Modules and Clean Access Server Operating Mode, page 4 (CSCsw70085).
8/13/08	Added new section Appendix A, "Advanced XML Rules"
7/31/08	Update to Cisco NAC Profiler Server, page 4-2
7/24/08	Updates for "Profiler Lite" (Cisco NAC Profiler on NAC-3310 platform): •Updated Cisco NAC Profiler Collector/Server Hardware Overview, page 4-1 •Updated Cisco NAC Profiler Server Hardware Summary, page 4-3 •Added"Profiler Lite" Front/Rear Panels (based on NAC-3310), page 4-4 Other updates: •Added note to CLI Commands for Cisco NAC Profiler, page 4-45 •Expanded note in Enable Events per Network Device, page 10-6 (CSCsq63961) •Updated templates and boilerplate.
3/4/08	Cisco NAC Profiler Release 2.1.8

Related Documents

lists documents available for Cisco NAC Profiler and Cisco NAC Appliance on Cisco.com at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6128/tsd_products_support_series_home.html

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Table 2 Cisco NAC Profiler Document Set


Document Title	Refer to This Document For Information On:
Release Notes for Cisco NAC Profiler, Release 2.1.8	Details on latest Cisco NAC Profiler release
Cisco NAC Profiler Installation and Configuration Guide (this guide)	Details on installing and configuring the Cisco NAC Profiler Server /Collector.
Cisco NAC Appliance Service Contract / Licensing Support	Details on ordering and installing Cisco NAC Profiler product licenses.
Release Notes for Cisco NAC Appliance (Cisco Clean Access), Version 4.1(3)	Details on Cisco NAC Appliance release 4.1(3) release, including: •New features and enhancements •Fixed caveats •Upgrade instructions •Supported AV/AS product charts •CAM/CAS/Agent compatibility and version information
Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Manager Installation and Configuration Guide, Release 4.1(3)	Complete CAM details, including: •How to install the CAM software •Overviews of major concepts and features of Cisco NAC Appliance •How to use the CAM web console to perform global configuration of Cisco NAC Appliance (applying to all CASes in the deployment) •How to configure CAM pairs for High Availability
Cisco NAC Appliance - Clean Access Server Installation and Configuration Guide, Release 4.1(3)	CAS-specific details, including: •CLI commands for starting the Cisco NAC Profiler Collector service on the CAS. •How to install the CAS software •Where to deploy the CAS on the network (general information) •How to perform local (CAS-specific) configuration using the CAS management pages of the CAM web console, or the CAS direct access console. •How to configure CAS pairs for High Availability

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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