About the communication between the managed hosts and Management Server

Last published : Jul 06, 2026
InfoScale Operations Manager provides you a single, centralized management console for the Storage Foundation and High Availability products. You can use it to monitor, visualize, and manage storage resources and generate reports about them. InfoScale Operations Manager lets administrators centrally manage diverse data center environments.
A typical InfoScale Operations Manager deployment consists of a Management Server and the managed hosts. The managed host can run on any platform that InfoScale Operations Manager supports. In a centrally managed deployment, you must configure one host as Management Server. Management Server receives information about all the resources in its domain. When you log on to Management Server, you can gain access to the resources on different hosts within the centrally-managed deployment.
The installer installs the VRTSsfmcs (Management Server) and the VRTSsfmh (managed host) packages on the host that is designated as Management Server. The VRTSsfmh package contains the XPRTL component that facilitates the communication between the managed hosts and Management Server. The VRTSsfmh package is installed on the managed host and Management Server.
The XPRTL component consists of the following:
  • The XPRTLD component, which is a light weight and full-featured Web server.
  • The XPRTLC component, which is an HTTP client that is based on command lines. The XPRTLC component can send information to Web servers .
The XPRTLD and the XPRTLC components are integrated with InfoScale Authentication Services for secure SSL communication over HTTP.
The communication between the managed host and Management Server occurs through the HTTPS protocol. The XPRTLD Web server running on both the managed host and Management Server supports the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) standards. The managed hosts use XPRTLC and invoke CGI through the XPRTLD on Management Server to perform several actions such as the InfoScale Operations Manager database update. Management Server uses XPRTLC and invokes CGI through the XPRTLD on the managed hosts to perform various actions that include Storage Foundation and high availability operations.
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