In Network Configuration Manager a few clients are configured to communicate over HTTPS and others over HTTP. You may want to change the default protocols depending upon network performance or security requirements.

Here are the default protocols used by the clients when communicating with the Application Server:
Table 1. Default client protocols
Clients Protocol
NCM thick client HTTP
J2EE API calls HTTP
NCM Smarts Adapter HTTPS
NCM EDAA (NCM MSA) HTTPS