The Policy Agent (pagentd) will provide policy rendering and policy enforncement. This is a logical abstraction for a physical or virtual device that implements and enforces policy. The Policy Agent are responsible for requesting portions of the policy from the policy authority as new endpoints connect, disconnect, or change. Additionally, the Policy Agent are responsible for rendering that policy from an abstract form into a concrete form that maps to their internal capabilities. This process is a local operation and can function differently on each device as long as the semantics of the policy are honored.
This agent will handle policy as defined in the OpFlex Control Protocol IETF draft [1]. pagentd is a multi-threaded agent which can operate as a PE (Policy Element) according to the draft.
[1] draft-smith-opflex-00c [Link to appear here]