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HNODE Class

The HNODE class contains information about the organization's CA ControlMinder hosts. Each record in the class represents a node in the enterprise.

This class is used to manage the information uploaded from the various PMDBs and endpoints and stored on the DMS.

The key of the HNODE class record is the actual host name for an endpoint (for example, myHost.ca.com) or the PMDB name for a Policy Model node (for example, myPMD@myHost.ca.com).

The following definitions describe the properties contained in this class record. Most properties are modifiable and can be manipulated using selang or the administration interfaces. Non-modifiable properties are marked informational.

ACL

Defines a list of accessors (users and groups) permitted to access the resource, and the accessors' access types.

Each element in the access control list (ACL) contains the following information:

Accessor

Defines an accessor.

Access

Defines the access authority that the accessor has to the resource.

Use the access parameter with the authorize or authorize- command to modify the ACL.

ATTRIBUTES

Defines the custom criteria that the DMS uses to assess if the host is automatically added to a host group.

Note: The DMS also examines the following HNODE properties to assess if a host should be automatically added to a host group: COMMENT, HNODE_INFO, HNODE_IP, HNODE_VERSION, NODE_TYPE

CALACL

Defines a list of the accessors (users and groups) that are permitted to access the resource, and their access types according to the Unicenter NSM calendar status.

Each element in the calendar access control list (CALACL) contains the following information:

Accessor

Defines an accessor.

Calendar

Defines a reference to a calendar in Unicenter TNG.

Access

Defines the access authority that the accessor has to the resource.

Access is permitted only when the calendar is ON. Access is denied in all other cases.

Use the calendar parameter with the authorize command to permit user or group access to the resource according to the access defined in the calendar ACL.

CALENDAR

Represents a Unicenter TNG calendar object for user, group, and resource restrictions in CA ControlMinder. CA ControlMinder fetches Unicenter TNG active calendars at specified time intervals.

CATEGORY

Defines one or more security categories A security category is the name of record in the CATEGORY class. You can assign a security category to accessors and to resources. An accessor can access a resource only if the accessor is assigned to all of the security categories assigned to the resource. assigned to a user or a resource.

COMMENT

Defines additional information that you want to include in the record. CA ControlMinder does not use this information for authorization.

Limit: 255 characters.

COMPLIANT

Displays the automatically calculated compliance status of the HNODE. Values are:

• yes - CA ControlMinder installed and all effective policies successfully deployed.
• no - CA ControlMinder installed and none of the effective policies were deployed.
• Deviation - CA ControlMinder installed and not all of the effective policies were successfully deployed.
• Unknown - CA ControlMinder not installed and there are no effective policies to deploy.

Note: UNAB policies (login and configuration policies) are not assigned with compliant status values.

COMPLIANT_UPDATE_TIME

(Informational) Displays the date when and time when the status was last changed.

CREATE_TIME

(Informational) Displays the date and time when the record was created.

DAYTIME

Defines the day and time restrictions that govern when an accessor can access a resource.

Use the restrictions parameter with the chres, ch[x]usr, or ch[x]grp commands to modify this property.

The resolution of daytime restrictions is one minute.

EFFECTIVE_POLICIES

Defines the list of policy versions that should be deployed on this object.

Display name: Effective Policies

GHNODES

Defines the list of host groups this object is a member of.

Display name: node groups

GROUPS

Defines the list of CONTAINER records that a resource record belongs to.

To modify this property in a class record, change the MEMBERS property in the appropriate CONTAINER record.

Use the mem+ or mem‑ parameter with the chres, editres or newres command to modify this property.

HNODE_IP

The IP address of the host.

Display name: IP

HNODE_KEEP_ALIVE

Defines the last time the HNODE sent a heartbeat to the Distribution Host.

Display name: Last Heartbeat

HNODE_EVENTS

Displays a list of strings representing health recovery events that occurred on the endpoint. Health recovery events are, for example, restarting of an agent due to critical memory threshold breach, or bypassing of a program that deteriorates the performance of the endpoint.

HNODE_INSTALL_STATUS

Displays the installation status of an endpoint. You can search endpoints by status in CA ControlMinder Enterprise Management under World View.

Values: Success, Failure, Pending Reboot, Upgrading.

Display name: Install Status.

HNODE_BYPASS_EXIST

Displays whether the endpoint is in bypass mode as a measure of precaution. In bypass mode, CA ControlMinder policy handling is temporarily reduced. If this value is No then the endpoint is fully operational.

Value: Yes or No

Display name: Bypass exist.

LOGIN

Defines the default access type to the host.

Display name: LOGIN

NACL

The NACL property of a resource is an access control list that defines the accessors that are denied authorization to a resource, together with the type of access that they are denied (for example, write). See also ACL, CALACL, PACL. Each entry in the NACL contains the following information:

Accessor

Defines an accessor.

Access

Defines the type of access that is denied to the accessor.

Use the authorize deniedaccess command, or the authorize- deniedaccess- command, to modify this property.

NODE_INFO

(Informational) Specifies details of the node OS.

NODE_TYPE

(Informational) Defines the type of CA ControlMinder installation on the host. Valid values are:

• ACU—CA ControlMinder for UNIX
• ACW—CA ControlMinder for Windows
• UNAB—UNIX Authentication Broker (UNAB)

Note: A HNODE record can have a value of both ACU and UNAB for the NODE_TYPE property.

NODE_VERSION

(Informational) Defines the CA ControlMinder version installed on the host. The version number is preceded by the NODE_TYPE.

Example: ACU:12.50-00.647

NOTIFY

Defines the user to be notified when a resource or user generates an audit event. CA ControlMinder can email the audit record to the specified user.

Limit: 30 characters.

OWNER

Defines the user or group that owns the record.

PACL

Defines a list of accessors that are permitted to access the resource when the access request is made by a specific program (or a program that matches a name-pattern) and their access types. Each element in the program access control list (PACL) contains the following information:

Accessor

Defines an accessor.

Program

Defines a reference to a record in the PROGRAM class, either specifically or by wildcard pattern matching.

Access

Defines the access authority that the accessor has to the resource.

Note: You can use wildcard characters CA ControlMinder recognizes wildcard characters for some names. Where it does so, the wildcards it recognizes are * and ?. The * character represents any number of any characters, including no characters; the ? character represents one instance of any character. to specify the resource in a PACL.

Use the via(pgm) parameter with the selang authorize command to add programs, accessors, and their access types to a PACL, You can use the authorize- command to remove accessors from a PACL.

PARENTS

(Informational). The list of PMDBs that are the parents of the node in the propagation tree (also defined by the parent_pmd configuration setting).

POLICYASSIGN

Defines the list of policies that are assigned to this object.

Display name: Assigned Policies

POLICY

The status of each of the policies listed in the POLICIES property. The value of the property is a structure with the following fields:

nNAME

Object ID of the POLICY object. Same as the value of the POLICIES property.

STATUS

An integer representing one of the following:

• Deployed—Policy was deployed successfully on endpoint.
• Deployed with Failures—Policy was deployed with one or more rules from the deployment script failing to execute on the endpoint.
• Undeployed—Policy was undeployed successfully from endpoint.

  Note: If a policy is undeployed, no status appears for the host (that is, the status is empty).

• Undeployed with Failures—Policy was undeployed with one or more rules from the undeployment script failing to execute on the endpoint.
• Failed Deployment—Policy failed to deploy due to an error in the deployment script.

  Note: This status can appear only if policy verification is enabled. Otherwise, policyfetcher deploys a policy even if the policy contains errors (Deployed with Failures status).

• Unknown—Policy status is unknown.
• Deploy Pending—Waiting for a prerequisite policy to be deployed or the policy contains an undefined or unresolved variable.
• Undeploy Pending—Waiting for a dependent policy to be undeployed.
• Out of Sync—The policy contains a variable and the variable value has changed on the endpoint.
• Not Executed—Policy verification found one or more errors with the policy.
• Queued—Obsolete (for backward compatibility only.)
• Transferred—Obsolete (for backward compatibility only.)
• Transferred Failed—Obsolete (for backward compatibility only.)
• Signature Failed—Obsolete (for backward compatibility only.)

deviation

A value representing whether there is a policy deviation on this node. Valid values are:

• Yes
• No
• Unset

dev_time

Last deviation status update time.

ptime

Last policy status update time.

updator

The name of the user that deployed or removed the policy.

RAUDIT

Defines the types of access events that CA ControlMinder records in the audit log. RAUDIT derives its name from Resource AUDIT. Valid values are:

all

All access requests.

success

Granted access requests.

failure

Denied access requests (default).

none

No access requests.

CA ControlMinder records events on each attempted access to a resource, and does not record whether the access rules were applied directly to the resource, or were applied to a group or class that had the resource as a member.

Use the audit parameter of the chres and chfile commands to modify the audit mode.

SECLABEL

Defines the security label A security label is the name of a record in the SECLABEL class. A security label bundles together a security level and a set of security categories. Assigning a security label to an accessor or a resource gives the accessor or resource the combined security level and security categories associated with the security label. A security label overrides any specific security level and category assignments in an accessor or resource. of a user or resource.

Note: The SECLABEL property corresponds to the label[-] parameter of the chres and ch[x]usr commands.

SECLEVEL

Defines the security level A security level is an integer between 0 and 255 that you can assign to accessors and resources. An accessor cannot access a resource if the accessor has a security level less than the security level assigned to the resource, even if the user is granted access authority in the resource's access control list. of an accessor or resource.

Note: This property corresponds to the level[-] parameter of the ch[x]usr and chres commands.

SUBSCRIBER_STATUS

The status of the node per parent. The value of the property is a structure with the following fields:

oidSubs

Object ID of the HNODE object. Same as the value of the SUBSCRIBERS property.

status

A value representing one of the following statuses:

• Available
• Unavailable
• Sync (synchronizing)
• Unknown

stime

Last status update time.

SUBSCRIBERS

The list of subscribers of the node in the propagation tree. Updating this property, implicitly updates the PARENTS property with the value of the HNODE object name.

UACC

Defines the default access authority for the resource, which indicates the access granted to accessors who are not defined to CA ControlMinder or who do not appear in the ACL of the resource.

Use the defaccess parameter with the chres, editres, or newres command to modify this property.

UNAB_ID

(Informational) Displays the UNAB host ID for reporting purposes.

UPDATE_TIME

(Informational) Displays the date and time when the record was last modified.

UPDATE_WHO

(Informational) Displays the administrator who performed the update.

WARNING

Specifies whether Warning mode is enabled. When Warning mode is enabled on a resource, all access requests to the resource are granted, and if an access request violates an access rule, a record is written to the audit log.