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Each host in a Consul cluster runs the Consul agent, a long running daemon that can be started in client or server mode. Each cluster has at least 1 agent in server mode, and usually 3 or 5 for high availability. The server agents participate in a [consensus protocol](https://www.consul.io/docs/internals/consensus.html), maintain a centralized view of the cluster's state, and respond to queries from other agents in the cluster. The rest of the agents in client mode participate in a [gossip protocol](https://www.consul.io/docs/internals/gossip.html) to discover other agents and check them for failures, and they forward queries about the cluster to the server agents.
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