How This Book Is Organized

This book is organized like a trail of the The Java Tutorial, each 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"

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"

Part III, "Notification Mechanisms," shows how to send and receive events between resources, agents and remote managers. Topics:

• "Agent-Side Notifications"

• "Notification Forwarding"

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 V, "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"