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How Endpoints Update the DMS

Each endpoint sends a heartbeat (host status), policy status, and deviation status notifications to the DMS, through the DHs you configured. Those DMS notifications are handled in the following way:

1. The DH stores notification messages in an update file.

   These are heartbeats and policy deployment and undeployment notifications from the endpoint.

2. The DH contacts the DMS, which is its subscriber:
   • If a DMS is unavailable, the DH tries to communicate with the DMS periodically, until all messages are successfully sent.
   • If the DMS is available, the DH sends the stored notifications.
3. The DMS stores the information it receives from each DH for later use.

   Each time you create a report, CA Access Control retrieves the information from the DMS.

Note: UNAB endpoints use a different process to update the DMS.

More information:

How You Control Host Access and Configure UNAB