Event Management Agent

An Event Management Agent is required to discover runtime data and configure event brokers using Event Portal. Event Management Agents have the following deployment options:

Event Management Agents support connections to Solace software event brokers and appliances and Kafka clusters and Confluent schema registries.

Event Management Agents in Upload Scan File Mode

Event Management Agents in Upload Scan File Mode

In upload scan file mode, you install Event Management Agents within your own network. For more information, see Setting Up Event Management Agents to Upload Scanned Files.

We recommend Upload Scan File mode in these use-cases:

  • Your organization's security policies don't allow you to connect your operational event broker services to Event Portal. For example, your event brokers are not connected to the internet.

  • You want to redact sensitive data from scan files before manually uploading the data to Event Portal.

Upload Scan File Mode requires two Event Management Agents:

  • An Event Management Agent to communicate with Event Portal.

  • An Event Management Agent to communicate with your event broker services.

In the following architecture diagram, the red boxes highlights the Event Management Agents.

Diagram of the Cloud architecture that highlights the Event Management Agent in Upload Scan file Mode

The security measures applied in this scenario include:

  • There is no direct connection between PubSub+ Cloud and your event brokers.

  • Upload Scan File Mode does not allow you to send event broker configuration from Event Portal to operational event brokers.

Event Management Agents in Scan From Event Portal Mode

In scan from Event Portal mode, you install Event Management Agents within your own network. For more information, see Setting Up an Event Management Agent to Run Scans from Event Portal.

We recommend Scan from Event Portal mode in these use-cases:

  • You want to import runtime data from your operational event brokers directly into Event Portal.

  • You want to configure event broker services directly from Event Portal.

In the following architecture diagram, the red box highlights the Event Management Agent:

Diagram of the Cloud architecture that highlights the Event Management Agent in Scan from Event Portal mode

The security measures applied in this scenario include:

  • The Event Management Agent must authenticate with event broker services it connects to so it can securely exchange information.

  • Authentication credentials are retrieved on a per-connection basis, and are not stored in the Event Management Agent.

  • Communication between the Event Management Agent, Event Portal, and your event broker services occur over secured connections.