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Using agentless or agent-based methods

Using agentless or agent-based methods

From the course: Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate (200-201) Cert Prep: 1 Security Concepts

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Using agentless or agent-based methods

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- [Narrator] It's important to monitor our systems in either conventional or virtualized environments. One method we use to assess the health of our systems is by using agentless and agent-based approaches. The goal is to monitor the health and status of each device on the network. Although the two have a similar purpose, they have different ways to achieve the same goal. Let's compare the two. With agent-based monitoring, an agent must be installed into each monitored node. Once installed, you can collect, analyze, and process significantly more data from a given system. This method uses less bandwidth as data is collected locally and processed before sending across the network to a central server. Agent-based monitoring is more secure as data is handled locally and no additional firewall rules are required. This method is more reliable as the agent can store monitored logs even when the network connection is lost.…

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