Concept Types of Managed Objects

The concept type of an object describes its role within the larger system of managed objects.

When analyzing a system of managed objects, classify each object as one of six types. When coding an agent, these types translate into the enumerated constants of TeaConcept.

  • Product (Top Level Object)
    The top level object represents a product or system as a whole.
  • Application
    An application object represents something that can execute, such as Java code, a shell script, a web app.
  • Process
    A process object represents a process executing on a host computer.
  • Access Point
    An access point object represents an endpoint or entry point that serves as the source or destination of a data stream. Examples include a network interface, HTTP connector, TCP port, WSDL endpoint, JMS topic or queue, or TIBCO Rendezvous transport.
  • Resource
    A resource object represents a shared resource, such as a file, thread pool, database connection pool, LDAP connection pool, or other objects defined using JNDI.
  • Group
    A group object represents a homogeneous set of objects.