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Is it possible to manage an Agent
via TCP/IP only, and if yes, how do I configure the Consolidator to do this?
Contributed
By: Ugo Corti
Communication between
the Agent and Consolidator is socket-based, encrypted (Diffie-Hellman key
exchange followed by DES - but not authenticated) Transmission Control Protocol
(TCP).
By default, it uses port 1270 for encrypted communication, and port 51515 for
unencrypted communication. For security reasons, it was determined that it is
more detrimental for the Agent to trust the Consolidator than for the
Consolidator to trust the Agent. For this reason, the Agent is designed to
always initiate communication with the Consolidator.
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