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Table Of Contents
- Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit
- Contents
- About the Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit
- Introduction to Plug-in Development
- The Role of the Server and Agent in Plug-ins
- Technical Overview
- Plug-in Implementations
- Using Support Classes to Simplify a Plug-in
- Writing Plug-ins
- JMX Plug-in
- Script Plug-ins
- SNMP Plug-in
- JMX-Based Management
- Auto-Discovery of JMX Resources
- Configuration Properties for JMX Monitoring
- Creating a Custom JMX Plug-in
- Defining Service Types to Provide Management via Custom MBeans
- Defining an ObjectName to Access Custom MBeans
- Defining Configuration Properties to Appear in the User Interface
- Defining and Gathering Metrics
- Specifying the Availability Metric for MBeans
- Implementing Control Actions
- Defining the Server Auto-Inventory Element
- Discovering Custom Properties
- Running and Testing Plug-ins from the Command Line
- Using Auto-Discovery Support Classes in Plug-ins
- Working with Plug-in Descriptors
- Plug-In Support Classes
- Index
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DNS
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NTP
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DHCP
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Example: Run the netservices Plug-in metric Method for a Remote LDAP Server
You use the following command to run the netservices plug-in metric method for a remote LDAP server.
The value of each configuration option for the LDAP service object is supplied using a -D argument.
java -jar bundles/agent-VERSION/pdk/lib/dcs-tools-pdk-shared-VERSION.jar -m metric -p netservices
-t LDAP -Dplugins.include=netservices -Dhostname=192.168.1.1 -Dssl=false -Dport=389
-DbaseDN=dc=foobar,dc=co,dc=nz -DbindDN=cn=root,c=foobar,dc=co,dc=nz
-DbindPW=changeme -Dfilter=uidNumber
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