Sintelix Agent Installation Summary

What is the Agent?

Sintelix can harvest information from the Internet. While this used to be integrated within Sintelix, this Harvester functionality has now been captured within a separate Sintelix Agent application. This allows greater flexibility and efficiency in harvesting information from the Internet.

Sintelix Agent works with:

• Windows
• Linux
• macOS (Agent Only)

The Sintelix Agent can either be installed:

• with Sintelix on the same machine (most common installation model), or
• separately on a different machine and then connected to Sintelix.

A separate Agent installation may be required:

• when using Sintelix Online, and you need to install the Sintelix Agent onto your computer.
• for security, to maintain the Sintelix server in a protected environment, with the Agent installed on a separate server with different security protocols. Contact Sintelix support if you require assistance configuring a separate installation of the Sintelix Agent.

Once the agent is installed, Sintelix needs to be connected to the agent to harvest information from the Internet. The Sintelix Agent connection can be:

• shared (default), used by multiple users, or
• private, unique to a user, (private agents are disabled by default) and is only used when connecting to Sintelix Online.

Private Agents are unique to a user. It provides a protected connection between the Agent and Sintelix Online.

By default, Private agents are disabled and must be enabled in Admin > System Settings. Once enabled, a Private agent connection requires the agent password (set during installation) to authorise the connection.

Only one agent should be connected at a time.

The different installation configurations are summarised in the table below:

The diagrams below illustrate the different installation configurations for the Sintelix Agent: