Introduction

SIMP Agent is an auxiliary tool used with the SIMP Console to provide compliance information and enforce compliance as directed from the console. Choose from any one of your favorite SCAP scanners on both Linux and Windows, run scans-on-demand from the console, and send compliance reports to the UI for easy viewing.

System Requirements

SIMP Agent has full scanning and enforcement support for various versions of Windows as well as numerous Linux distributions.

Windows:

Scanners Available: jScat (default), CIS-CAT Assessor Pro v4
Bolt enforcement supported: true
Versions supported: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019

Linux

Scanners Available: OpenSCAP (default), CIS-CAT Assessor Pro v4, Compliance Engine
Bolt enforcement supported: true
Versions supported:
- RHEL: 7,8
- Oracle Linux: 7,8
- CentOS: 7,8

The Agent uses minimal system resources until the time of scanning/enforcement. Expect the normal load usually used by whatever ability type is being run.

We recommend running the agent on a system with:

1gb of free HDD space
2gb RAM minimum, 6gb recommended
quad-core CPU