About this Document

This document contains Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 2.0 installation details for Cisco Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid) and associated SDK. Sample pxGrid scripts are included. These can be run in a non-802.1X or 802.1X environment.

pxGrid ISE 2.0 new features are:

• Dynamic Topics Contextual information can be shared between the registered/subscribed pxGrid clients. pxGrid clients can act as publisher or subscribers to publish or consume this information. Note that ISE will not be able to consume this information.

• Adaptive Network Control (ANC) Policy Provides 3rd party applications or Cisco Security Solutions to customize mitigation actions including quarantine, remediation, provisioning, port bounce, port shut from an ISE policy or pxGrid ANC query script.

• Publish SXP Bindings Enables subscribers to get receive IP, SGT-Tag, Source, Peer Sequence information.

The Radius Simulator is used for non-802.1X environments. The pxGrid session attributes, such as posture information and endpoint device, require an 802.1X environment for testing.

The pxGrid ISE 2.0 features require an 802.1X environment for testing. Additionally, TrustSec compatibility will be required on network devices if testing SXP is planned.