Before You Read This Book

In order to build and run the sample programs provided in the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1 Tutorial, or use the tool commands described in the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1 Tools Reference, you must have a complete installation of the Java Dynamic Management Kit on your machine. Please refer to the Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1 Installation Guide and Release Notes document for instructions on how to install the product components and configure your environment.

After familiarizing yourself with the concepts of the Java Dynamic Management Kit, you should familiarize yourself with the tools provided with the Java Dynamic Management Kit and learn how to instrument new or existing resources for management. The following books are part of the product documentation set:

• Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1 Tools Reference

• Java Dynamic Management Kit 4.1 Tutorials

These books are available on-line after you have installed the documentation package of the Java Dynamic Management Kit. The on-line documentation also includes the Javadoc API for the Java packages and classes, including those of the Java Management extensions. Using any web browser, open the home-page corresponding to your platform:

In these file names, installDir refers to the base directory of your Java Dynamic Management Kit installation. The JDKversion is that of the Java Development Kit which you use and which you selected during installation; it can be either 1.1 or 1.2. This convention is used throughout this book whenever referring to files or directories which are part of the installation. In a default installation procedure, installDir is:

• /opt on the Solaris platform

• C:\Program Files on the Windows NT platform