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Appendix A Cisco Security Agent Installation and Overview
Downloading and Installing
Figure A-1 Optional Agent Reboot
If a system is not rebooted following the agent installation, the following
functionality is not immediately available. (This functionality becomes available
the next time the system is rebooted.)
Windows agents
• Network Shield rules are not applied until the system is rebooted.
• Network access control rules only apply to new socket connections. Network
server services should be stopped and restarted for full network access
control security without a system reboot.
• Data access control rules are not applied until the web server service is
restarted.
Solaris and Linux agents, when no reboot occurs after install, the following
caveats exist
• Network access control rules only apply to new socket connections. Network
server services should be stopped and restarted for full network access
control security without a system reboot.
• Buffer overflow protection is only enforced for new processes.
• File access control rules only apply to newly opened files.
• Data access control rules are not applied until the web server service is
restarted.
