How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized like a trail of the The Java Tutorial. Each major part is a lesson covering a subject and each chapter covers a topic within that subject.

Part I, "Instrumentation through MBeans" shows various ways of making a resource manageable. Topics:

• "Standard MBeans"

• "Dynamic MBeans"

• "Model MBeans"

Part II, "Agent Applications" demonstrates the functionality of the MBean server at the heart of an agent. Topics:

• "The MBean Server in a Minimal Agent"

• "The HTML Protocol Adaptor"

• "The Base Agent"

• "The Notification Mechanism"

Part III, "Remote Management Applications" covers how the Java Dynamic Management Kit simplifies how a distant manager may access the resources in an agent. Topics:

• "Protocol Connectors"

• "MBean Proxies"

• "Notification Forwarding"

• "Access Control and Security"

Part IV, "Agent Services" demonstrates the various kinds of management intelligence which can be dynamically added to an agent. Topics:

• "The M-Let Class Loader"

• "The Relation Service"

• "Cascading Agents"

• "The Discovery Service"

Part VI, "SNMP Interoperability" shows how Java agents can also implement an SNMP agent and how to write a manager with the SNMP manager API. Topics:

• "Creating an SNMP Agent"

• "Developing an SNMP Manager"

• "Security Mechanisms in the SNMP Toolkit"

• "Implementing an SNMP Proxy"