Configure MCP for Two-way Communication

MCP agents communicate with Control Manager using one-way communication by default. You can manually configure the agent to communicate with Control Manager using two-way communication. For more information on one-way and two-way communication, see One-way and Two-way Communication Support on page 1-5.

To configure MCP for two-way communication on a Windows environment:

  1. Create a folder on the server hosting the MCP agent. For example:

cgi-bin

  1. Put the following files in the folder you created.

  2. cgiCmdNotify.exe

  3. libapr-1.dll

  4. libcurl.dll

  5. TrendAprWrapperDll.dll

  1. In the Product.ini file, configure the following settings:

  2. Port= 80

This value represents the Web server�s port number.

This value is the related file path for cgiCmdNotify.exe.

  1. In the Agent.ini file configure the following:

  2. CGI_Path= C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin

This value is the full file path to cgiCmdNotfiy.exe.

To configure MCP for two-way communication on a Linux environment:

  1. Create a folder on the server hosting the MCP agent. For example:

cgi-bin

  1. Put the following file in the folder you created.

cgiCmdNotify.exe

  1. In the Product.ini file, configure the following settings:

  2. Port= 80

This value represents the Web server�s port number.

This value is the related file path for cgiCmdNotify.exe.

  1. In the Agent.ini file configure the following:

  2. CGI_Path= var\www\cgi-bin

This value is the full file path to cgiCmdNotfiy.exe.