How to verify an Endpoint Agent is communicating with a Endpoint Server
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How to verify an Endpoint Agent is communicating with a Endpoint Server

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Article ID: 159537

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Issue/Introduction

You have deployed an endpoint agent (any version), and have not seen it checked in to the Agents Overview section, nor have you seen any incidents created from this agent.

Resolution

You may first want to check out port connectivity from the endpoint agent to the endpoint server via a telnet test.

Additionally you can use the windows netstat utility to see if the endpoint agent has an "established" connection or not.

Example information

If your Endpoint server IP address is, 192.168.2.52  You can perform the following telnet test from a endpoint agent that is not checking in.

 

open a Command window:

telnet 192.168.2.52 10443

 

Another good test you can perform from the Endpoint Server is a netstat test which will show you what ports are connected/established or listening.

The endpoint server should be listening on port 10443 (0.0.0.0:10443 LISTENING),  The endpoint agent, if connected will show ESTABLISHED on port 10443

Example From Endpoint server:  

C:\>netstat -aon | find "10443"
  TCP    0.0.0.0:10443               0.0.0.0:0                    LISTENING          2192
  TCP    192.168.2.52:10443      192.168.2.53:1433      ESTABLISHED     2192
  TCP    192.168.2.52:10443      192.168.2.54:49306     ESTABLISHED     2192
  TCP    192.168.2.52:10443      192.168.2.55:49160     ESTABLISHED     2192

(Note that pre DLP version 12.5 your Endpoint Agents may be communicating on port 8000)

 

To test the endpoint agent's ability to communicate with the endpoint server, use the following command

telnet 10443

It is unreliable to test netstat on the Endpoint Agent as this will only show established if the Agent is actively transferring data from the endpoint server.  You will not observe any output on the endpoint agent port otherwise.  Endpoint agents attempt a connection with the endpoint server as per the agent Polling interval.  This interval is located in the advanced settings of the agent configuration (ServerCommunicator.CONNECT_POLLING_INTERVAL_SECONDS.int)