The Agent Manager manages the command and control activities of the Network IPS appliances that are registered with the SiteProtector™ system. The Agent Manager facilitates data transfer from the appliances to the Event Collector. The Event Collector manages real-time events that it receives from the appliances.
When you enable SiteProtector Management, you assign the Network IPS appliance to an Agent Manager.
The Agent Manager also sends policies to appliances, which are based on their policy subscription groups. Policy subscription groups are groups of agents or appliances that share a single policy. Determine the policy subscription group to which the appliance belongs before you register it with the SiteProtector system. After you register the appliance with the SiteProtector system and add the appliance to the appropriate policy subscription group, the Agent Manager sends the applicable policies to the appliance.
For more information about the Agent Manager, see the SiteProtector system documentation or online help.