Azure Arc Enabled Servers

Azure Arc Enabled Servers is a Windows software package for installing the Azure Arc Agent, also called the Connected Machine agent. The package is provided by Microsoft and is intended for users or administrators who need to prepare a Windows system for Azure Arc connectivity. Its role in the MirrorNest catalog is to identify and provide access to this agent package rather than describe a separate application built by MirrorNest.

For Windows-only versions beginning with Connected Machine agent version 1.56, the package documentation addresses cases where the agent cannot reach Azure endpoints even after those endpoints have been allowed in the environment. The relevant configuration requires at least one of the recommended TLS versions to have an enabled cipher suite. For TLS 1.3, the listed suites are TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256. For TLS 1.2, the listed suites are TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 and TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256.

These cipher suite settings give Windows administrators specific connection parameters to check when troubleshooting the agent's access to Azure endpoints. The source information identifies the suites in server-preferred order and includes their associated forward-secrecy and elliptic-curve details. No separate license terms are provided for Azure Arc Enabled Servers, so the license status is unknown in this catalog entry.

Azure Arc Enabled Servers fits MirrorNest's Windows software category because the supplied package is intended for Windows systems and is tied to the Windows version of the Connected Machine agent. MirrorNest links directly to the official Microsoft release instead of mirroring the installation files. Readers therefore obtain the package from the official release location while using MirrorNest as the catalog reference.