Before You Read This Book

To use the tool commands described in this book, you must have a complete installation of the Java Dynamic Management Kit on your system. Refer to the Java Dynamic Management Kit 5.0 Installation Guide for instructions on how to install the product components and configure your environment.

Related Documentation

Management concepts and product features are covered in the other books of the product documentation set, listed in Table P–1.

Table P–1 Related Documentation

Book Title	Part Number
Getting Started with the Java Dynamic Management Kit 5.0	816–4176–10
Java Dynamic Management Kit 5.0 Tutorial	816–4178–10
Java Dynamic Management Kit 5.0 Installation Guide	816–4179–10

These books are available online after you have installed the documentation package of the Java DMK. The online documentation also includes the Javadoc API for the Java packages and classes. To access the online documentation using any web browser, open the homepage corresponding to your operating environment. Table P–2 shows the location of the home page for the Solaris^TM operating environment and Windows 2000 operating environment.

Table P–2 Accessing Online Documentation

Operating Environment	Home Page Location
Solaris environment	installDir/SUNWjdmk/jdmk5.0/index.html
Windows 2000 environment	installDir\SUNWjdmk\jdmk5.0\index.html

In these file names, installDir refers to the base directory (or folder) of your Java DMK installation. In a default installation procedure, installDir is:

• /opt on the Solaris platform

• C:\Program Files on the Windows 2000 platform

These conventions are used throughout this book whenever referring to files or directories (folders) that are part of the installation.

The Java DMK relies on the JMX architecture. The specification document, Java Management Extensions Instrumentation and Agent Specification v1.1 (Maintenance Release, March 2002), is provided in the product documentation package, under the file name jmx_instr_agent.pdf.