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Chapter 15 Posture Policy Manager provides several posture methods for health evaluation of clients requesting access. These methods all return Posture Tokens (E.g., Healthy, Quarantine) for use by Policy Manager for input into Enforcement Policy. One or more of these posture methods may be associated with a Service. Posture Architecture and Flow Policy Manager supports three different types of posture checking: l Posture Policy. Policy Manager supports four pre-configured posture plugins for Windows, one plugin for Linux and one plugin for MAC OS X, against which administrators can configure rules that test for specific attributes of client health and correlate the results to return Application Posture Tokens for processing by Enforcement Policies. l Posture Server. Policy Manager can forward all or part of the posture data received from the client to a Posture Server. The Posture Server evaluates the posture data and returns Application Posture Tokens. Policy Manager supports the Microsoft NPS Server for Microsoft NAP integration. l Audit Server. Audit Servers provide posture checking for unmanageable devices (i.e., devices lacking adequate posture agents or supplicants); in the case of such clients, the audit server's post-audit rules map clients to roles. Policy Manager supports two types of Audit Servers: NMAP audit server, primarily to derive roles from post-audit rules; NESSUS audit server, primarily used for vulnerability scans (and, optionally, post-audit rules). Dell Networking W-ClearPass Policy Manager 6.0 | User Guide 169