How can I tell if my agent is directed to an appliance or going straight over Port 443 to Alert Logic?

To determine whether your agent is directing traffic via Port 443 to Alert Logic® or to an appliance to act as a proxy, which forwards traffic to Alert Logic as a single point of egress, run the following command from an administrative command prompt.

Note: You can change it with the following command linux: /etc/init.d/al-agent configure --host [appliance ip] Windows C:\"Program Files (x86)"\AlertLogic\agent\al-agent.exe configure --host [appliance ip]

Windows

C:\"Program Files (x86)"\AlertLogic\agent\al-agent -c

Linux

sudo /var/alertlogic/lib/agent/bin/al-agent -c

The output will provide a great deal of information, but what is most important for this concern is the ***al_config*** section towards the bottom. The highlighted text in the image below is the "direction" of your agent's traffic.

If your traffic is going to an appliance as a single point of egress, the controller_host will be an IP address of the device it is directed to.

If your traffic is going to Alert Logic, the controller_host will be vaporator.alertlogic.com, as shown in the image above.