Live-monitoring of agent instances in a contact center network

Abstract

A computing system for managing a contact center having agent instances includes processor(s) in a management network serving an end-user network that includes the contact center and a communication distributor server operable to receive communications from customers to the end-user network and assign one or more of the agent instances to service the communications from the customers. The processor(s) are configured to perform tasks including (a) receiving, from the end-user network, data associated with processes of the server(s) including the communication distributor server, (b) determining, based on a specification, operations to be performed by the one or more servers, and (c) providing, to the one or more servers, the operations, wherein the operations include changing a state of a particular agent instance of the agent instances or modifying an assigned schedule or assigned queue for the particular agent instance. A method and article of manufacture are also provided.