In an ePO deployment, which component is designed to improve communication speed between agents and the server?

• A. Discovery Server
• B. Log Server
• C. Policy Server
• D. Agent Handlers

Answer: (D)

Distributing the load between many agents and the server through an intermediary layer is how you boost communication speed. Agent Handlers sit between the agents and the core server, handling the incoming communications, managing connections, and often batching or queueing requests. This offloads work from the central server, allows more agents to connect concurrently, and improves throughput and responsiveness, especially in large deployments. Other components serve different roles—Discovery Server finds machines, Log Server stores logs, and Policy Server runs policies and decisions—so they don’t specifically optimize the speed of agent-to-server communication in the same way.