Managed Objects
Managed objects are entities in the world that users can monitor and manipulate using TIBCO Enterprise Administrator.
Administrative users interact with managed objects using the TIBCO Enterprise Administrator server.
Within the server, each agent models a set of interrelated managed objects. TIBCO Enterprise Administrator SDK lets you build agents that model managed objects.
When building an agent, the most obvious managed object is the product that you are modeling. For example, the sample Tomcat agent would surely include Tomcat server processes as managed objects.
You can also expose components of a managed object as managed objects in their own right. For example, the sample Tomcat agent exposes the web applications deployed within a Tomcat server.
Sometimes it is useful to model a group of managed objects as a managed object in its own right. For example, a Tomcat agent could model a group of Tomcat server processes as a Tomcat cluster.