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[[Category: Proxy Agent]]

= Overview =
This is the interface between the [[Proxy Agent]] and Plugin executable. The function of a plugin executable is to deliver device commands to the device management system and produce a results file with the outcome of the command execution.


= High-level design =
The ProxyAgent will launch a plugin executable with a set of parameters describing the device(s) to target and the action to take on the device(s). Once launched, the ProxyAgent will continue processing actions and will not interact again with the plugin instance (ie. “Fire and Forget”). 

Multiple instances of a particular plugin can be launched concurrently. However, the ProxyAgent will not launch more than one plugin instance targeted against a particular device; each device will have at most one plugin operating on it at any given time.