US Patent 12135627 Facilitating management of collection agents

Embodiments described herein are directed to facilitating management of collection agents. In one embodiment, a control request is received at an agent service manager from an agent controller that manages collection agents that collect data. The agent controller and the collection agents operate on a remote computing machine. A desired agent event is identified to be executed in association with a set of collection agent of the collection agents. An indication of the desired agent event is provided to the agent controller for execution of the desired agent event in association with each collection agent of the set of collection agents.