Table Of Contents

Preface

Objective

Audience

Document Organization

Document Conventions

Related Documentation

Changes to This Document

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Preface

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This preface explains the objectives, intended audience, and organization of the Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager Concepts Guide and describes the conventions that convey instructions and other information.

The preface contains the following sections:

•Objective

•Audience

•Document Organization

•Document Conventions

•Related Documentation

•Changes to This Document

•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Objective

This document describes the basic concepts that are embodied in the Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager (CEPM).

Audience

This guide is for administrators who use CEPM and are responsible for resource modelling and entitlement management.

Document Organization

This guide contains the following topics:

•"Overview"—The first section describes the high-level concepts embodied in CEPM, what its basic capabilities are, its main architectural components, and its general model for managing, evaluating, enforcing, and auditing application entitlements.

•"Physical Architecture"—The second section briefly describes the prominent aspects of the physical architecture and deployment model.

•"Entity Model"—The third section describes the entities modeled in CEPM (such as subjects, resources, and policies), the relationship between these entities, and the beginnings of the policy model.

•"Policy Model"—The fourth section describes the policy model in detail including the role- and rule-based policy model, descriptions on how CEPM handles scoping of roles, dynamic rules, and other advanced policy model concepts.

•"Product Architecture and APIs"—The last section describes CEPM product architecture, including the various APIs, component communication and protocols, and utility functions/tools that enable easy integration with both decision and administration functionality. The stage is set with an in depth look at how CEPM fits into the typical IT stack.

Document Conventions

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Caution Means reader be careful. You are capable of doing something that might result in equipment damage or loss of data.

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Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to materials not contained in this manual.

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Related Documentation

This document should be used in conjunction with the following documents that describe the product use in more detail:

•CEPM_User_Guide_V3.3.0.0.pdf

•CEPM_Java_Developers_Guide_V3.3.0.0.pdf

•CEPM_Deployment_and_Capacity_Planning_Guide_V3.3.0.0.pdf

•CEPM_Resource_and_Subject_Modeling_Best_Practices_Guide_V3.3.0.0.pdf

Additional information can also be found in the tutorial / sample material shipped with the product.

Changes to This Document

lists the changes made to this document since it was first released.

Table 1 Changes to This Document

Date	Change Summary
July 7, 2009	Minor edits and template/boilerplate updates for publication to Cisco.com
April 3, 2009	Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager (EPM) Release 3.3.0.0

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