# How do Beats receive configuration changes from Beats Central Management (i.e REST, SSH)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** fleet\ **Created:** [July 3, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-beats-receive-configuration-changes-from-beats-central-management-i-e-rest-ssh/188764 "2019-07-03T15:48:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maria\_Med](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/maria_med/32/48133_2.png) [@Maria\_Med](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Maria_Med)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-beats-receive-configuration-changes-from-beats-central-management-i-e-rest-ssh/188764/1 "2019-07-03T15:48:23Z")
I am trying to find how the Beats Central Management console in Kibana deploys configuration changes to enrolled Beats. I have searched the documentation of both Beats and Beats Central Management, but have seen no clear detail specifying how these changes are deployed. I know that when a Beat is enrolled it receives an "access token" for configuration polling, but does this mean that REST is used? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-beats-receive-configuration-changes-from-beats-central-management-i-e-rest-ssh/188764/2 "2019-07-05T08:04:18Z")
Yep, it uses HTTP(s) calls to Elasticsearch. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 10:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-beats-receive-configuration-changes-from-beats-central-management-i-e-rest-ssh/188764/3 "2019-08-02T10:04:26Z")
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