Access To A Protocol Adaptor

The purpose of a protocol adaptor is to enable a manager to:

• Read and, if allowed, set attributes of MBeans

• Invoke operations on MBeans

• Receive notifications emitted by MBeans

• Request that MBeans are instantiated, registered and deregistered

  When a request from a manager to instantiate and register an MBean is carried out, the Java class of the MBean needs to be specified. The code of the class does not have to be present on the same machine as the agent in which the MBean is to be instantiated.

These types of management applications access adaptors directly:

• Web browsers accessing the HTML adaptor

• SNMP managers