What is an agent?

Agents are organizational elements created remotely or locally to contain a series of monitoring elements. They usually represent a device or server. An agent can have one or several IP addresses associated with it, and its name cannot be repeated with any other, although its alias can. Each agent belongs to a primary group, and to as many secondary groups as needed.

Agents have different statuses, which are determined by the status of their monitoring elements or modules.

The agent's task is to serve as the container for data extraction tools for a specific monitored machine or device.