Cisco ISE Deployment: Persona Storage Configuration

Configuring Cisco ISE Deployment: Persona Storage

Question

An engineer is configuring a virtual Cisco ISE deployment and needs each persona to be on a different node.

Which persona should be configured with the largest amount of storage in this environment?

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Explanations

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A. B. C. D.

A.

In a Cisco ISE deployment, the different personas are distributed across different nodes to ensure redundancy, high availability, and scalability. Each persona performs a specific function within the ISE deployment.

The four personas in a Cisco ISE deployment are:

  1. Primary Administration (PAN)
  2. Policy Services (PSN)
  3. Monitoring and Troubleshooting (MnT)
  4. Platform Exchange Grid (pxGrid)

The Primary Administration persona is responsible for managing the entire deployment, including configuration, monitoring, and reporting. It also handles the distribution of configuration changes to other personas in the deployment.

The Policy Services persona is responsible for enforcing network access policies and authentication policies. It handles authentication and authorization requests from network devices and endpoints and enforces access policies based on the results.

The Monitoring and Troubleshooting persona is responsible for monitoring the health of the deployment and troubleshooting issues. It also generates reports on user and device activity.

The Platform Exchange Grid persona is responsible for exchanging information with other security products and services, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and SIEM systems, using the pxGrid protocol.

In a virtual Cisco ISE deployment where each persona is on a different node, the persona that should be configured with the largest amount of storage depends on the specific requirements of the deployment. Generally, the persona that generates the most data or logs will require the largest amount of storage.

In most cases, the Monitoring and Troubleshooting (MnT) persona generates the most data and logs since it is responsible for monitoring user and device activity and generating reports. Therefore, it is likely that the MnT persona should be configured with the largest amount of storage in this environment.

Hence, option A. Monitoring and Troubleshooting is the correct answer.