A hospital is standing up four ISE virtual machines, one for each role. One VM must be the authoritative source for policy and network device configuration; another must collect authentication and failure logs; a third must answer RADIUS requests from switches and wireless controllers; a fourth must share session and posture data with the SIEM. Which persona assignment matches each of the four virtual machines?
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Short Explanation
You can match the four personas to team stations: Policy Administration manages policy and network-device configuration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting collects logs, Policy Service answers RADIUS requests, and pxGrid shares session and posture data with the SIEM. Once you've matched each job to its VM, the assignment is straightforward.
Full Explanation
Policy Administration is the authoritative source for ISE configuration, including policy sets, authorization profiles, identity sources, and network device entries; configuration is distributed to other nodes as needed. Monitoring and Troubleshooting handles monitoring and reporting data, including authentication attempts and failures reported by Policy Service nodes. Policy Service processes RADIUS and TACACS+ requests and evaluates authorization rules, so it belongs on the VM handling requests from switches and controllers. The pxGrid persona enables sharing of context with external systems, which fits the SIEM-sharing VM. A small deployment can host multiple personas on one node, but this scenario assigns one persona to each VM. Check persona assignments under Administration > System > Deployment.