You can issue a connection request while activating the agent. Conversely, you can activate the agent while issuing a connection request. If you issue a connection request from an agent while ordinarily waiting for a connection request from the controller, both the Agent icon and the Request icon are displayed on the task bar.

On agents, you can specify two types of security -- address authentication (permitted controllers) and user authentication (user IDs and passwords). However, user authentication is only available when you issue a connection request from an agent.