Abstract: Described are techniques for monitoring the performance, security and health of a system used in an industrial application. Agents on components included in the industrial network report data to an appliance or server. The agents on a component may include a configuration agent and one or more other agents. The configuration agent receives agent configuration data that may be communicated at a network application level. The agent configuration data may include information used to configure the configuration agent and other agents on the component. The configuration agent may be disabled. Once disabled, the configuration agent cannot be used to further modify agent configuration data as applied to the configuration agent and the one or more other agents until re-enabled.