When you install an up.time Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent, it is added as a service. On operating systems other than Windows, the agent only performs an action when it receives a request from the up.time Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring Station. At all other times, it listens for requests.
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If you suspect that an agent has a problem, poll the agent from within the up.time Uptime Infrastructure Monitor web interface to display its output and forward the results to uptime Support.
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