The Trend Micro Management Infrastructure (TMI) � the communications backbone of Control Manager � generates its own �housekeeping� traffic. TMI implements two policies:
Communicator Heartbeat
The Communicator, the commercial name for the Message Routing Framework of TMI, polls the Control Manager server at regular intervals. This ensures that the Control Manager console displays the latest information, and that the connection between the managed product and the Control Manager server is functional.
Work-hour policy
The work-hour policy defines when a Communicator sends information to the Control Manager server. Use the Communication Scheduler to define this policy; a user can set three periods of inactivity � also called �off-hour� periods. There are two types of information, however, that do not follow the Communicator Scheduler:
Emergency messages
Prohibited messages
TMI sends emergency messages to the Control Manager server � even when the Communicator is in an off-hour period. However, TMI never sends prohibited messages to Control Manager � even when the Communicator is active.
See also:
Log traffic
Product registration traffic