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.

Adapters

Adapters are used to directly acquire data from an endpoint. Over 60 protocoles are available to facilitate data acquisition from a variety of devices and data sources. There are two fundamental types of adapters: Probes – retrieve data by periodically checking/polling Listeners – receive data sent asynchronously from external sources