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Installation and Setup Guide for Cisco Secure ACS Appliance
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APPENDIX
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Windows Service Advisement
The operating system for the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance v3.2 is a customized
and minimized version of the Windows 2000 operating system. The Cisco Secure
ACS Appliance removes all extraneous services, blocks all unused ports, and
otherwise prevents all other access to the Cisco Secure ACS server system,
thereby dramatically increasing the security posture of Cisco Secure ACS.
The following sections present details regarding the minimization of the operating
system’s services:
Services that are Run, page B-1
Services that Are Not Run, page B-3
Services that are Run
Table B-1 lists the services that are run on the Cisco Secure ACS Appliance.
Table B-1 Operating System Services Automatically Run by Cisco Secure ACS
Appliance
Service Name Description
COM+ Event System Provides automatic distribution of events
to subscribing COM components.
DHCP Client Manages network configuration by
registering and updating IP addresses and
DNS names.