Trend Micro InterScan M Series, Administrator'S Manual

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Introducing Trend Micro Control Manager™
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Understanding Trend Micro Management
Communication Protocol
Trend Micro Management Communication Protocol (MCP) is Trend Micro's next
generation agent for managed products. MCP replaces TMI as the way Control
Manager communicates with InterScan Gateway Security Appliances. MCP has
several new features:
• Reduced network loading and package size
• NAT and firewall traversal support
• HTTPS support
• One-way and Two-way communication support
• Single sign-on (SSO) support
• Cluster node support
Reduced Network Loading and Package Size
TMI uses an application protocol based on XML. Even though XML provides a
degree of extensibility and flexibility in the protocol design, the drawbacks of
applying XML as the data format standard for the communication protocol consist of
the following:
XML parsing requires more system resources compared to the other data formats
such as CGI name-value pair and binary structure (the program leaves a large
footprint on your server or device).
The agent footprint required to transfer information is much larger in XML compared
with other data formats.
Centralized update
control
Update virus patterns, anti-spam rules, scan engines, and
other antivirus or content security components to help ensure
that all managed
Centralized reporting
Get an overview of the antivirus and content security product
performance by using comprehensive logs and reports.
Control Manager collects logs from all its managed products;
you no longer need to check the logs of each individual prod-
uct.
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