PHost Network Monitor installation, checks availability and performance of monitored resources and returns results back. Data transfer between IPHost Network Monitor and Remote Network Agent is secured with SSL. The first data exchange between central monitoring service and agent is also protected by Connection ID key. To comply with your company’s security policies we provide active and passive agents, active agent connects with central monitoring server by itself so no need to open any port on agent computer to accept inbound connections, passive agents are used if you need to secure central monitoring server.