Use aide to achieve efficiencies, part 7th: Better IT Management

Introduction: ibm®autonomic Integrated Development Environment (AIDE) facilitates contact point development using a model-driven approach and is a useful factory-style with a wizard-assisted pattern for generating common contact points. However, at some point in the AIDE-driven workflow, the contact point must be made specific to a given application. You can do this in the model design phase, or you can do it manually through hard coding. This tutorial, part 7th of this series, describes the techniques used to create common contact points and specialized contact points, and also provides insight into how to generate the points of contact that are correctly blended with a given management application.

Before you start

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About this series

This series of tutorials describes the IBM AIDE Toolkit and its use in an increasingly important area of information technology (information Technology,it) management, which is part 7th (last part) of this tutorial. Previous tutorials in this series have discussed the IT management value chain from managed elements to management applications. This tutorial explores the key areas of common contact points and dedicated contact points.

The target audience for this series of tutorials is anyone who has some knowledge of Java™ programming and wants to be able to use WEB services to create effective IT management systems through the AIDE technology and its components. AIDE incorporates a number of powerful open source technologies, including Eclipse, Apache Tomcat (or IBM websphere®application Server), and Apache Axis.

About this tutorial

In the seventh tutorial, a common platform is still used: any platform that supports Eclipse, AIDE Toolkit, and Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) V5.0. If the MICROSOFT®WINDOWS®XP is enough. All sample code is written and tested on a computer running Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 (SP2).

Prerequisite

The target audience for this tutorial is a programmer with some knowledge of Java programming and Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) elements. The ability to use Java EE elements, such as application servers, is helpful for reading this tutorial, but not necessary. This tutorial provides detailed instructions, so you can successfully complete the tutorial, whether or not you have read the other tutorials in this series.

System Requirements

To run the examples in this tutorial, you must meet the minimum platform requirements: A computer running Windows XP with AIDE software and Axis, Tomcat V5, and Java SE V5.0 installed.

Introduction to common contact points

Review of this series of tutorials.

This series reviews

This series is designed to help software developers and designers quickly use AIDE and other IBM autonomic computing technologies to achieve efficiencies. One important aspect of this series is the Web Services Distributed Management (Web Service distributed MANAGEMENT,WSDM) standard, and AIDE is one of the implementations of this standard. WSDM's main goal is to try to unify the legacy management infrastructure and information models by providing a framework that is independent of vendors, platforms, networks, and protocols, including Simple network management protocols (Easy network Management Protocol, SNMP) and the Desktop Management interface (Desktop Management INTERFACE,DMI), and the latter include the Public Information model (Common information MODEL,CIM), and so on. In addition, WSDM also provides management software with access to the methods and properties of managed objects. All such features are provided in the context of the WEB service.