This topic provides an overview of a basic deployment.

Figure 1. A basic Smarts secure Deployment
basic secure deployment diagram

This is a basic diagram of an Smart Assurance deployment. It shows various Smarts components. The arrows depict the communication protocol and their security. Depiction of basic Smarts secure deployment provides details.

Table 1. Depiction of basic Smarts secure deployment
Representation Depiction
TLS communication arrow Transport Layer Security (TLS) communication. TLS communication can be configured with FIPS 140 mode.
snmp v3 communication arrow SNMP v3 communication
non-secure communication arrow Non-secure communication
https communication HTTPS communication
non-encrypted communication Non-encrypted communication. Authentication required.