Control Manager™ is a software management solution that gives you the ability to control antivirus and content security programs from a central location—regardless of the program’s physical location or platform. This application can simplify the administration of a corporate virus and content security policy.
Control Manager server—the computer on which the Control Manager application is installed. The Control Manager management console is hosted on this server.
Communicator—the communications backbone of the Control Manager system; it is part of the Trend Micro Management Infrastructure. Commands from the Control Manager server to the managed products and status reports from the products to the Control Manager server all pass through this component.
Entity—an entity is a representation of a managed product on the Product Directory link. You see these icons in the directory tree of the Entity section of the Control Manager console. The directory tree is a composition of all managed entities residing on the Control Manager console.