Network Card User Manual

Chapter 5. Solution design 107
For ABBC we set the parameter to 60 seconds. Effectively this forces the
posture status to refresh itself at every challenge. Figure 5-8 shows the
conceptual control flow for this parameter.
Figure 5-8 MAX_DATA_AGE_SECS conceptual flow
Client challenge
issued by network
access device
Posture
Cache
Is the cache
data more
recent than
MAX_DATA_AGE_SECS
parameter?
Run Posture
Collectors
No
Yes
Return cached
data
Refresh Cached Data
Response sent
to network
Network Access Device