<s>
In	O
the	O
field	O
of	O
information	B-General_Concept
technology	I-General_Concept
,	O
agentless	B-Protocol
data	I-Protocol
collection	I-Protocol
involves	O
collecting	O
data	O
from	O
computers	O
without	O
installing	O
any	O
new	O
agents	O
on	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
the	O
purpose	O
of	O
this	O
discussion	O
,	O
an	O
agent	O
is	O
a	O
software	O
program	O
(	O
sometimes	O
called	O
a	O
service	O
or	O
daemon	O
)	O
that	O
runs	O
on	O
a	O
computer	O
with	O
the	O
primary	O
purpose	O
of	O
collecting	O
information	O
and	O
pushing	O
it	O
over	O
the	O
network	O
to	O
a	O
central	O
location	O
(	O
or	O
else	O
of	O
re-publishing	O
the	O
information	O
in	O
a	O
standard	O
format	O
like	O
SNMP	B-Protocol
so	O
that	O
it	O
can	O
then	O
be	O
collected	O
over	O
the	O
network	O
from	O
the	O
central	O
location	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
many	O
cases	O
,	O
it	O
is	O
possible	O
to	O
find	O
servers	O
for	O
these	O
protocols	O
:	O
log4j	B-Application
,	O
CIFS	B-Operating_System
,	O
SSH	B-Protocol
,	O
SNMP	B-Protocol
,	O
Windows	B-Library
Management	I-Library
Instrumentation	I-Library
(	O
for	O
Windows	O
platform	O
)	O
,	O
DTrace	B-Application
(	O
for	O
Solaris	O
10	O
platform	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
meaning	O
of	O
the	O
phrase	O
data	B-Application
mining	I-Application
is	O
related	O
to	O
but	O
different	O
from	O
data	O
collection	O
.	O
</s>
