I need a solution
We've just upgraded our CMS 7.5 systems to 7.6 HF7. All has gone (mostly) smoothly, but we did wonder about the change in 7.6 with the availability of 2 Symantec Management Agent clients - one for http and one for https connections.
My questions are this:
- Are there any differences between the 2 agents, apart from the security of the connection? I assume no other additional functionality?
- Are there any issues with using https agents - do they introduce any issues around SSL certificates, or anything else that needs to be changed or monitored on either client or NS server?
- Which use cases would https agent be preferred over http? I assume CEM clients would be one, but are there any benefits or drawbacks in using the https agent on the internal network also?
- How do we target existing client agents to use the https agent rather than the http agent? I don't see any separate installation policies for the https agent...
- Is it possible to identify which clients are using the https agent in the extended views (Manage Computers)? I noticed that the https agent has a small "green lock" within the systray icon on the client, but can't seen anything similar in the console to indicate which are http and which are https.
If anyone has any other advise or feedback around using the https agent, please also let me know.
Thanks.
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