1.3 Overview

The Update Agent Management Protocol defines a set of types and interfaces that allow clients to manage an update agent. The protocol implements two primary classes of functionality: (1) managing the set of update services registered with an update agent and (2) performing an update search with the update agent and returning the results.

The client and server can be on the same machine, or they can be on different machines connected by a network. A client can use the functionality provided by this protocol to perform an update search on the server machine against an update service of the client's choice.