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Agent Type Worksheet

Before you begin the process of defining a custom Agent Type, you should have a clear understanding of the environment your agent will support. Answer the following questions before following the steps for configuring and agent type.

• Which protocol is going to be protected by this agent—for example, HTTP?
• What are the actions or commands that you want to protect on these resources? Based on the protocol, list the actions you will allow. For example, for an FTP site, you may want to protect GET and PUT.
• What responses do you want the agent to receive? What data types will you want to pass in your responses: string, number, IP address?
  • A response can be a name-value pair. For example:
    time-restriction=yes
  • It can also be a string (personalized greeting) that you want to display to your user—for example, Hello John Smith, where name=John Smith.

After you have answered these questions, you can begin configuring your custom Agent Type.