Management Point

All managed clients communicate with the Management Point (MP) web service. This communication is established by the client to receive management policies, send state messages, and send data such as inventory reports. The Management Point provides policies based on information in the Site Database and delivers client data and status messages to the primary site server for processing.

Factors that impact the Management Point include the following:

• Number of managed systems

• Client Agent polling cycles

• Size and frequency of inventory reports

The Management Point role is one of the first roles to move off the Site Server to improve performance. The Management Point can support 25,000 clients on a single server and as many as ...

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