FIG. 3B is a block diagram representing an example arrangement 380 of the virtual appliance 320 of FIG. 3A operating the management endpoint 340, and the component server 330 of FIG. 3A operating the management agent 350. In the illustrated example of FIG. 3B, both the vA 320 and the component server 330 of FIG. 3B are operated within the same deployment environment 112. In the illustrated example of FIG. 3B, the example vA 320 includes the management endpoint 340 and the repository 134. In some examples, the repository 134 is implemented by another component of the deployment environment 112 that is separate from the vA 320. The example component server 330 includes the management agent 350 and a PowerShell? runtime environment 386. The example PowerShell? runtime environment 386 of the illustrated example of FIG. 3B is implemented by the Microsoft PowerShell? framework. The PowerShell? runtime environment 386 executes PowerShell? scripts, commands, files, etc. at the direction of the management agent 350. In the illustrated example of FIG. 3B, the PowerShell? runtime environment 386 is specific to implementations on component server(s) 330, 332, 334 that implement a Microsoft? Windows? Operating system. However, any other runtime environment and/or instruction execution system may additionally or alternatively be used. For example, the example PowerShell? runtime environment 386 may be replaced by a script interpreter (e.g., a Perl interpreter, a Python interpreter, etc.).
