Rules driven software deployment agent

A system for managing a network, comprising:

• hardware processing circuitry;
• and
• one or more memories storing instructions that when executed by the hardware processing circuitry configure the hardware processing circuitry to:
• communicate with a computing device of a network management server outside of the network via a restricted access-controlled network path;
• monitor one or more operational parameters of a first subset of network devices after deployment of data including one or more instructions to the first subset of network devices;
• determine that a criterion indicative of a change in performance of the network for at least one of the one or more operational parameters is met;
• and
• control, based on the change in performance of the network, at least one of:
• a roll back of the data including one or more instructions from the first subset of network devices, and
• deployment of the data including one or more instructions to a second subset of network devices.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed configure hardware processing circuitry to:

• monitor, by a first computing device of a network executing an agent module, the first computing device configured to communicate with a second computing device of a network management server outside of the network via a restricted access-controlled network path, one or more operational parameters of a first subset of network devices after deployment of data including one or more instructions to the first subset of network devices;
• and
• in response to determining, by the first computing device executing the agent module, that a criterion indicative of a change in performance of the network for at least one of the one or more operational parameters is met, control, by the first computing device executing the agent module and based on the change in performance of the network, at least one of:
• a roll back of the data including one or more instructions from the first subset of network devices, and
• deployment of the data including one or more instructions to a second subset of network devices.