Testing MBeans With A Web Browser

After you have compiled your MBean classes, you are able to use a web browser to test them. You do this by connecting a web browser to a running agent (for example, the base agent), instantiating MBeans, and performing other operations on the MBean instances. Before connecting a web browser to an agent, make sure that:

• The agent is running on a machine that you can access by using the HTTP protocol

• The agent contains an instance of HTML adaptor

• The compiled MBean classes are stored at a location specified in the CLASSPATH environment variable of the agent

To use a web browser to communicate with an agent, open the page given by the following URL in a web browser:

http://host:port

where:

• host is the host name of the machine on which the agent is running

• port is the port number used by the HTML adaptor in the agent; the default port number is 8082

The HTML page displayed is generated by the HTML adaptor and enables you to perform the following operations on MBeans in the agent:

• Reading or writing the attributes of an MBean instance

• Performing an operation on an MBean instance

• Instantiating an MBean

• Deleting an MBean instance