Patent ID: 8799441

Claim:
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions for: detecting a presence of a proxy server at a first site of a computer network; initiating, from a managed computer, communication via the computer network to a remote computer management server at a second site of the computer network, the initiating comprising executing an agent application operating on the managed computer responsive to detecting the presence of the proxy server; determining whether a connection to the computer network from the agent application has been established; when the connection is established performing a plurality of automated querying operations via the agent application operating on the managed computer to query the remote computer management server at a plurality of predefined time intervals to determine whether a management action is to be performed on the managed computer; determining that a management action is to be performed on the managed computer based on at least one of the plurality of querying operations performed over the predefined time interval; receiving at the managed computer from the remote computer management server a command to perform a new function related to the management action that was not previously enabled to be performed by the managed computer; and performing the new function by the managed computer.