Control_Manager
Trend Micro 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 antivirus and content security policy.
Threat Discovery Appliance supports Control Manager 5.0.
Refer to the Trend Micro Control Manager Administrator’s Guide for more information about managing products using Control Manager.
Control Manager server—the computer upon which the Control Manager application is installed. This server hosts the Web-based Control Manager product console
Management Communication Protocol (MCP) Agent—an application installed along with Threat Discovery Appliance that allows Control Manager to manage the product. The agent receives commands from the Control Manager server, and then applies them to Threat Discovery Appliance. It also collects logs from the product, and sends them to Control Manager. The Control Manager agent does not communicate with the Control Manager server directly. Instead, it interfaces with a component called the Communicator
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 Threat Discovery Appliance, and status reports from Threat Discovery Appliance to the Control Manager server all pass through this component.
Entity—a representation of a managed product (such as Threat Discovery Appliance) on the Control Manager console’s directory tree. The directory tree includes all managed entities.
You can use the Control Manager Settings screen on the product console to perform the following:
Check the connection between Threat Discovery Appliance and Control Manager
Check the latest MCP heartbeat with Control Manager
Register to a Control Manager server
Unregister from a Control Manager server
Verify if Threat Discovery Appliance can register to a Control Manager server
Ensure that both Threat Discovery Appliance and the Control Manager server belong to the same network segment. If Threat Discovery Appliance is not in the same network segment as Control Manager, configure the port forwarding settings for Threat Discovery Appliance.
To register Threat Discovery Appliance to Control Manager:
Administration > Control Manager Settings
Under Connection Settings, type the name that identifies Threat Discovery Appliance in the Control Manager Product Directory.
Specify a unique and meaningful name to help you quickly identify Threat Discovery Appliance.
Under Control Manager Server Settings:
Type the Control Manager server IP address or host name.
Type the port number that the MCP agent uses to communicate with Control Manager.
If the Control Manager security is set to medium (Trend Micro allows HTTPS and HTTP communication between Control Manager and the MCP agent of managed products) or high (Trend Micro only allows HTTPS communication between Control Manager and the MCP agent of managed products), select Connect through HTTPS.
If your network requires authentication, type the user name and password for your IIS server in the Username and Password fields.
If you use a NAT device, select Enable two-way communication port forwarding and type the NAT device’s IP address and port number in Port forwarding IP address and Port forwarding port number. Threat Discovery Appliance uses the Port forwarding IP address and Port forwarding port number for two-way communication with Control Manager.
Configuring the NAT device is optional and depends on the network environment.
To check whether Threat Discovery Appliance can connect to the Control Manager server based on the settings you specified, click Test Connection.
Click Register if connection was successfully established.
To check the Threat Discovery Appliance status on the Control Manager console:
Open the Control Manager management console.
To open the Control Manager console, on any computer on the network, open a Web browser and type the following:
https://<Control Manager server name>/Webapp/login.aspx
Where <Control Manager server name> is the IP address or host name of the Control Manager server
In Main Menu, click Products.
Select Managed Products from the list.
Check if the Threat Discovery Appliance icon displays.
To manage connection with Control Manager after registration:
Administration > Control Manager Settings
Under Connection Status, check the following:
If the product can connect to Control Manager. Restore the connection immediately if the product is not connected.
The last heartbeat, which indicates the last communication between the MCP agent (and Threat Discovery Appliance) and the Control Manager server.
If you change any of the settings after registration, click Update Settings to notify the Control Manager server of the changes.
If you no longer want the Control Manager server to manage Threat Discovery Appliance, click Unregister. If you have several Control Manager servers, you can unregister the product from its current parent Control Manager server and then register it to another server.
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