The agent is responsible for communication between the administered computers and the Endpoint Protection servers. Effectively, it ‘talks’ with the agents on the computers in the same group and is responsible for downloading installation programs from the Internet.
When the agent installer is run, the Endpoint Protection installation process is launched, which involves a series of different tasks: downloading settings, installing the protection, updating the signature files, etc.
As a fundamental component in the dialogue between different computers, the agent is a key part of the P2P process described below.