Home

Definition of Agent

The MOM/SCE component installed on computers to perform management tasks on those computers. The agent communicates with the SCE Management Server, sending data from the managed computers to the Management Server and downloading data from the Management Server to the managed computer.

Computer Science

Other definitions of Agent

An application that runs on a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) managed device. The agent application is the object of management activities. A computer running SNMP agent software is also sometimes referred to as an agent.

Computer Science

In client/server applications, a process that mediates between the client and the server.

Computer Science

A program that performs a background task for a user and reports to the user when the task is done or some expected event has taken place.

Computer Science

The part of the rig that is used to run tests and generate simulated load.

Computer Science

A monitoring option in real-time spyware protection that monitors various types and areas of software activity on your computer.

Computer Science

A managed software component that monitors events and performance pertaining to a specific application component, and transmits observations to a host application for display, action, or reporting.

Computer Science

The feature that is installed on a Windows-based computer that performs management. The agent collects data, compares sampled data to predefined values, creates alerts, and runs responses.

Computer Science

A person who works for a call center and signs in to an ACD system or who responds to calls routed to him or her by an IVR system. Formal agents may be signed in into UC throughout the day, and they may sign in and out of the ACD system during the day. They are fully aware of their role as an agent and want to be able to see the numbers of calls in the queues they are serving, and so on. Informal agents may not consider themselves as agents, and they don’t sign in and out of the ACD system as agents. They do not monitor queue fill levels or other metrics.

Computer Science

A helper bot for Windows Live Messenger that was developed on the Windows Live Agents platform.

Computer Science

A user who works for a company that is a valid partner tenant who has been assigned either limited or full administration agent role.

Computer Science

In intelligence usage, one who is authorized or instructed to obtain or to assist in obtaining information for intelligence or counterintelligence purposes.

USA Army