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EPHEMERAL
This section explains the three EPHEMERAL modifier values.
This modifier has three different values:
- A value of Y means that the connection to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server listening port is used for all communications. The agent does not require a separate listening port. This means fewer ports are used, which can be important when firewall rules are in place. It is also a way to avoid the 15 agent limitation. There is a disadvantage in the case of historical data collection. The historical data must be either stored at the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server or, if the historical data is being stored at the agent, a Warehouse Proxy Agent must be running on the same server as the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server that the agent is reporting to.
- A value of OUTBOUND means the same as the value Y above.
- A value of INBOUND can be used at a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. It means that every agent connecting to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server is configured to ephemeral mode.
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KDE_TRANSPORT Transmission Control Protocol