Overview

The Agent Toolkit Java Edition provides an intuitive development tools for building Multi-protocol agents. The developed agents provide multi-protocol access to common management information, including SNMP, RMI, HTTP, CORBA, and TL1. You just have to instrument once to access with any protocol.

The Multi-Protocol architecture is applicable to network management, remote system maintenance, application provisioning, and the new management needs of the service-based network.

Steps to Build Multi-Protocol Agents

Following are the steps to build Multi-Protocol Agents using the AdventNet Agent Toolkit:

1. Create a new project using JMX Compiler.

2. Load a MIB as input to the agent.

3. Generate the Code for the multi-protocol agent using JMX Compiler.

4. Compile the Code.

5. Test the multi-protocol agent using the respective browsers for the different protocols.

In addition to providing a detailed description on building Multi-Protocol Agents using various tools, the guide also documents the features implemented by the Multi-Protocol Agent. The FAQ comprises of the solution to queries regarding multi-protocol agent and its features. Also, the Tutorials demonstrate the complete development process of implementing Multi-Protocol Agent for other applications. The Migration Guide assists the users with information about migrating from 4.2 to 5.0/5.1.0.