The Perceptive Search Intelligent Agent allows you to perform a query automatically, at a set frequency, while you are working on other things.
The Agent is a very useful way of keeping up to date with documents as they come in, and ensuring that you know what's been added to your index. It is a particularly valuable tool if your index changes often, for instance if you receive documents from an external source on a regular basis.
The Intelligent Agent keeps track of what it's previously brought to your attention, and also which documents you've actually browsed. This way, when the Agent alerts you, you know it is something new, or an old document which has changed and now meets your criteria. If you choose not to immediately browse the documents Intelligent Agent brings to you attention, it keeps track of them for you.
Remember that the Intelligent Agent is checking your index, not your actual hard drives, so it is unaware of new or changed files until they've been Added or Updated to the index.
To find out more about using the Intelligent Agent, click on a link below.