What’s the purpose of a remote agent in PCM v3.0?
PCM 3.0’s new architecture lets you logically divide the network and manage devices on remote segments of large networks connected by WAN links that might or might not be behind a NAT firewall. With PCM’s new architecture you can manage devices scattered geographically that were unreachable before, grant visibility and administration permissions for different parts of the network to different users, and ensure secure communication over insecure WAN links. PCM’s new architecture relies on remote Agents deployed across the network that perform device discovery, management operations, policy execution and gathers traffic statistics on behalf of the PCM Server. A local Agent is configured on the PCM server during installation, and up to 10 remote Agents can be installed on PCs in remote locations.
