SoftAgent Managed Host Agent
A lightweight agent on Windows exhibition PCs, working with SoftControl for host-level unified management
SoftAgent is free to download and use. Works with SoftControl for unified management of all Windows PCs in your exhibition.
Product Overview
SoftAgent is a host-level lightweight agent running on Windows exhibition PCs. It accepts dispatch from SoftControl and other control systems via UDP network commands, executing system-level control (volume / power / lock screen / Wake-on-LAN / keyboard simulation), watching over application processes, and proactively reporting heartbeat and status. SoftAgent is a pure actuator — it does not embed LLM or orchestrate on the device side.
Key Capabilities
System Control
Volume up/down/mute, lock screen/sign out/shutdown/restart (with delay + cancel), get MAC, Wake-on-LAN (WoL), keyboard simulation.
Process Watchdog
Startup item list (program / UDP command types), delayed start, crash watchdog (exponential backoff + time-window rate limit), remote start/stop of managed processes.
Heartbeat & Discovery
Periodic JSON heartbeat (default 10s) + immediate online report, discover response. agentId derived from MachineGuid (no MAC dependency).
Deployment & Network
Auto-start on boot (scheduled task, highest privilege, login trigger), configurable listen port (default 6500), fast IP change + NIC selection, atomic config write + rollback.
Robustness
Per-layer exception isolation across receive/command/watchdog, dual-process mutual keepalive, heartbeat best-effort non-blocking, auto log cleanup.
Application Scenarios
Exhibition halls: SoftControl dispatches all Windows PCs — one-touch power on/off, volume control, scene switching.
Corporate meeting rooms: Remote lock screen/unlock, volume control, no on-site visits required.
Multi-device management: Process watchdog keeps display software running; auto-restarts on crash, reducing manual checks.
Device discovery: Heartbeat reporting lets SoftControl track every exhibition PC's online status in real time.
Integration with SoftControl
SoftAgent is deployed on exhibition Windows PCs and receives commands from SoftControl via UDP for system control and process watchdog. SoftControl uses heartbeat data to monitor every PC's online status for centralized host management.
Pricing
Free to download and use. Works best paired with SoftControl.