What Development Tools Are Provided?

The Java Dynamic Management Kit provides:

• A management architecture which supports the JMX specification. This architecture, in turn, provides a set of Web-based mechanisms for automatic propagation of management services across the network to the agents.

• An agent framework, which includes a library of reusable core agent services in the form of management components based on the JavaBeans^TM architecture. New services can be plugged in and old services removed as management requirements evolve. The services supplied include the following: monitoring, timer, mlet, relation, cascading, discovery, and filtering.

• Service creation tools, which include:

  • A managed object generator (proxygen), which helps developers to create their own specific Java technology-based client management services.

  • A Java technology-based SNMP MIB Compiler (mibgen) which takes an SNMP MIB as input and outputs a set of Managed Beans. These MBeans implement the MIBs, enabling the JDMK agent to be managed by an SNMP manager.