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Agents
Agents are used to host one or more adapters, manage adapter configurations, and manage communications back to the EPN. Agents and adapters may be installed directly on endpoints, intermediate servers, or EPN occurrence nodes. Agents may be configured to collect data from one or more endpoints based on the desired deployment scenario.
Connectors
Connectors are used to directly acquire data from an endpoint. Over 60 protocols are available to facilitate data acquisition from a variety of devices and data sources. There are two fundamental types of adapters:
- Probes – Captures information from local or remote event sources using scheduled retrieval. For example, a probe can retrieve information from remote Syslog files, message queues, local Windows event logs, or FTP service directories.
- Listeners – Listens passively for information sent to the agent (asynchronous) from a configured remote endpoint. For example, a listener can track events arriving as HTTP calls, JMS queued messages, or SNMP traps.
Supported Transport Protocols
| Application Specific |
ESX Server, Grinder, Nagios, Sales Force, WOMBAT, WebSphere, WebLogic, AquaLogic |
| Authentication |
Radius, TACACS |
| Database |
JDBC, ODBC |
| Directory |
Active Directory, LDAP |
| Enterprise Service Bus |
FUSE ESB, IBM MQ, JBoss ESB, JMS, Mule, SonicMQ, Tibco Rendezvous, ActiveMQ, FioranoMQ |
| File System |
CSV File, Directory, File (Size, Dates, existence), FTP , Text File, XLS File |
| Industrial and Domestic Control |
C-Bus, Dynalite, MOD Bus, Network Instruments Data Socket, OPC, Serial, Echelon -LonWorks |
| Internet |
HTTP, HTTP Post, HTTPS, RSS, Web Services (SOAP), WSDL, XML |
| Inter Processing Messaging |
CORBA, DCOM |
| IT/Network |
DNS, ICMP, Net Flow, NTP, RAW Socket, SMS, SMTP, SMTP Proxy, SNMP Query, SNMP Traps, Syslog, Syslog NG, TCP Service Location, VMWare |
| Java |
JBI, JMX, JMS |
| Operating System API |
Java API, Linux API, Solaris API, Windows DLL |
| Routing |
BGP, OSPF, RIP |
| Security |
Solaris BSM Advanced Security |
| Windows Specific |
Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows Events, Windows Performance |
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