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Control Manager Installation Guide - Trend Micro? Online Help

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FEATURE DESCRIPTION<br />

Introducing <strong>Trend</strong> <strong>Micro</strong> <strong>Control</strong> <strong>Manager</strong><br />

Centralized update control Update virus patterns, antispam rules, scan engines, and<br />

other antivirus or content security components to help<br />

ensure that all managed products are up to date.<br />

Centralized reporting Get an overview of the antivirus and content security<br />

product performance using comprehensive logs and<br />

reports.<br />

<strong>Control</strong> <strong>Manager</strong> collects logs from all its managed<br />

products; you no longer need to check the logs of each<br />

individual product.<br />

Understanding <strong>Trend</strong> <strong>Micro</strong> Management<br />

Communication Protocol<br />

<strong>Trend</strong> <strong>Micro</strong> Management Communication Protocol (MCP) agent is the next generation<br />

agent for <strong>Trend</strong> <strong>Micro</strong> managed products. MCP replaces <strong>Trend</strong> <strong>Micro</strong> Management<br />

Infrastructure (TMI) as the way <strong>Control</strong> <strong>Manager</strong> communicates with managed<br />

products. MCP has several features:<br />

• Reduced network loading and package size<br />

• NAT and firewall traversal support<br />

• HTTPS support<br />

• One-way and two-way communication support<br />

• Single sign-on (SSO) support<br />

Reduced Network Loading and Package Size<br />

TMI uses an application protocol based on XML. Even though XML provides a degree<br />

of extensibility and flexibility in the protocol design, the drawbacks of applying XML as<br />

the data format standard for the communication protocol consist of the following:<br />

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