VMware VCM 5.3 - TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY IMPLEMENTATION Manual page 8

TLS Implementation for VCM
Figure 2: Shared Collector-Agent Relationship
As the diagram above illustrates, an Agent may communicate with more than one Collector. In this case, each
Collector has a common Enterprise Certificate. Because both of the Collector certificates were issued by the same
trusted authority, the Agent that is shared between the two can trust both Collector Certificates. This is useful in multi-
collector, Server Authentication environments.
If you employ Mutual Authenticate and if a single Agent is shared between two Collectors, then it becomes necessary
for each Collector to use an Agent Certificate that is issued by a Collector other than itself. This is described as a
shared Collector-Agent relationship.
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