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## About Trend Micro Control Manager

Trend Micro™ Control Manager™ is a software management solution that gives you the ability to control antivirus and content security programs from a central location-regardless of the program’s physical location or platform. This application can simplify the administration of a corporate virus/malware and content security policy.

- Control Manager server: The Control Manager server is the machine upon which the Control Manager application is installed. The web-based Control Manager management console is generated on this server.
- Agent: The agent is an application installed on a product-server that allows Control Manager to manage the product. It receives commands from the Control Manager server, and then applies them to the managed product. It also collects logs from the product, and sends them to Control Manager. The Control Manager agent does not communicate with the Control Manager server directly. Instead, it interfaces with a component called the Communicator.
- Communicator: The Communicator is the communications backbone of the Control Manager system; it is part of the Trend Micro Management Infrastructure. Commands from the Control Manager server to the managed products, and status reports from the products to the Control Manager server all pass through this component. Only one Communicator is installed on each product server; the Communicator then handles the needs of all the agents on the aforementioned server.
- Entity: An entity is a representation of a managed product on the Product Directory link. You see these icons in the directory tree of the Entity section. The directory tree is a composition of all managed entities, residing on the Control Manager console.

Related information

- About Trend Micro Management Communication Protocol
- Using ScanMail with Control Manager
- Registering to Control Manager
- Unregistering ScanMail from Control Manager