The example management agent 350 queries the management endpoint 340 for an indication of instructions to be executed by the management agent 350 (block 710). The example management endpoint 340 identifies an instruction to be executed by the management agent and responds to the request received from the management agent 350 with an indication of the instruction to be executed (block 715). In some examples, the indication of the instruction includes a name of the instruction to be executed (e.g., “perform_upgrade.ps1”), a location from which the instruction is to be retrieved, one or more parameter (e.g., command line parameters) that are to be used and/or specified when executing the instruction, an expected result of the instruction, and/or any other information to facilitate execution of the instruction at the component server 330.
In some other examples, the example management endpoint 340 may determine that no instructions are to be executed, and a response indicative of the same may be sent to the example management endpoint interface 530. In such an example, the example sequence of