Flexible system health and remediation agent

A computer system for maintaining the health of computer systems within an organization, the system comprising:

• a rule data store configured to store one or more rules for determining the health of computer systems in an organization;
• a network crawl component configured to crawl a network connecting at least some of the computer systems within the organization to identify computer systems the health of which the system maintains;
• an agent deployment component configured to deploy a software agent to identified computer systems to execute on the computer systems and to remove the agent from the identified computer systems after remediation is complete;
• and
• a flexible agent component configured to report the health of and perform remediation steps on the identified computer systems.

A tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions for controlling a computer system to automatically provide remediation for compliance problems of the computer system, by a method comprising:

• receiving a statement of health that indicates a failure of the computer system to comply with an identified compliance rule;
• receiving a script that provides remediation instructions for responding to the failure of the computer system;
• automatically performing the instructions of the script to remediate the computer system;
• determining that the computer system no longer fails to comply with the identified compliance rule;
• updating the statement of health to indicate a current health states of the computer system;
• and
• after remediating the computer system, removing the received script from the computer system.