About agents

KUMA agents are services that are used to forward raw events from servers and workstations to KUMA destinations.

Types of agents:

• wmi agents are used to receive data from remote Windows devices using Windows Management Instrumentation. They are installed to Windows assets.
• wec agents are used to receive Windows logs from a local device using Windows Event Collector. They are installed to Windows assets.
• tcp agents are used to receive data over the TCP protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• udp agents are used to receive data over the UDP protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• nats agents are used for NATS communications. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• kafka agents are used for Kafka communications. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• http agents are used for communication over the HTTP protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• file agents are used to get data from a file. They are installed to Linux assets.
• ftp agents are used to receive data over the File Transfer Protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• nfs agents are used to receive data over the Network File System protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• snmp agents are used to receive data over the Simple Network Management Protocol. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.
• diode agents are used together with data diodes to receive events from isolated network segments. They are installed to Linux and Windows assets.