Getting Started with the Tutorial

• Agent Toolkit Java Edition Product Installation

• Help documentation for the RI

• Application Specification

This tutorial leads you through the development of dynamic Multi-Protocol agents using the framework and components provided by AdventNet Agent Toolkit.  It is aimed at OEM who wish to instrument their objects to make them JMX manageable and developers of Multi-Protocol agents. The pre-requisite of this tutorial would be reasonable knowledge in Java programming and JMX technology.

Agent Toolkit Java Edition  Product Installation

To run the reference implementation and use the tools specified in this tutorial, AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition, must be installed in your machine.  Before reading this tutorial, you should be familiar with the tools (like MIB Editor, JMX Compiler etc.,). For information on these tools, refer Agent Toolkit Java Edition Product Documentation. The documentation is also available online ( http://www.adventnet.com )

HELP Documentation for the RI

To start with, please refer the "Application Notes" section and directly move on to the steps involved in running the application and testing the same. The steps have been covered in the section  "Running and Testing the application".

To know how this Reference Implementation was developed, go through the "Steps Involved in Developing the RI" section. This will also give a brief introduction about the application that we have implemented for this tutorial.

The "Creating a MIB" and "Generating Code" section provides explanation for creation of a simple Agent, starting from the definition of a MIB till compilation of the code. Other sections like Implementing Scalars, Tables and Traps talks about the features supported by the toolkit. On following these steps you can implement the features required for your application and the Agent will respond with the implementation values on request (not the default values).

To have detailed explanation on the terms explained here please refer the Building Multi-Protocol agents section of the AdventNet Agent Toolkit Java Edition, Product Help Documentation.

Application Specification