Introduction; Activation Of The Pull Mode For The Smc Agents - AVIRA SECURITY MANAGEMENT CENTER - OPTIMIZATION FOR LARGE NETWORKS Manual

1. Introduction

This document helps you to optimize the SMC for large installations (1000
or more administered computers). This document should be seen as a
complement to the Security Management Center Server HowTo.

2. Activation of the Pull Mode for the SMC Agents

The SMC is using the push mode by default in order to get a direct
connection to the SMC agent. But the push mode can decrease the
amount of available ports in large networks. This mode requires that that
the SMC server can directly reach every SMC agent.
But computers which are connected to the network by NAT cannot directly
be reached by the SMC server.
Additionally a direct connection between SMC server and SMC agent
causes a network load which increases with the amount of administered
computers.
In order to avoid a higher network load, we recommend you to use the
pull mode on the SMC agent. Thereby the SMC doesn't work in real time
mode anymore but also computers which are connected via NAT can be
administered. Besides the network load caused by the SMC or its agents is
reduced.
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