About agents
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.
- etw agents are used to receive Event Tracing for Windows data. They are installed to Windows assets.
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