CEPM Resource Models
Preface

Table Of Contents

Preface

Objective

Audience

Document Organization

Document Conventions

Related Documentation

Changes to This Document

Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request


Preface


This preface explains the objectives, intended audience, and organization of the Cisco Enterprise Policy Manager Resource and Subject Modeling Best Practices 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 concepts related to basic policy-based application entitlement which ensures that a subject accessing a resource (or invoking an action on a resource) is allowed or denied, based on attributes-based rules.

Audience

This guide is for administrators who use CEPM for resource modeling and entitlement management.

Document Organization

This guide contains the following topics:

Introduction

Resource Model

Subject Model

FAQ

Document Conventions

This document uses the following conventions:


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


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


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_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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