Host IPS 8.0 Patch 3 introduced the McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention Local Procedure Call (LPC) Service (HipMgmt.exe) to manage Host IPS / McAfee Agent (MA) communication using the updated MA LPC interface. The Host IPS LPC service is set to Startup Type: Automatic. HipMgmt.exe is located in the Host IPS client installation folder on Windows systems, and logs into HipMgmt.log and HipMgtPlugin.log.

The MA LPC-managed product interface was deployed in MA 5.x versions. 

LPC is a multi-platform code available on Windows and UNIX-based systems. LPC follows a client-server architecture, where the MA LPC process acts as a server and managed products act as clients. LPC uses Named Pipe as an inter-process communication mechanism on Windows, and Unix Domain Sockets on UNIX platforms. LPC stores configuration information in registry on Windows and config.xml file on UNIX platforms.