Protocol Adaptors are used to convert any management information
of a device into standard protocol information which is commonly
understood by all application integration vendors and enterprise
consoles. When a particular message/PDU is sent from the manager,
the adaptor maps the protocol request with the respective
MBean of the agent and responds back with management information.
WebNMS Agent Toolkit supports six adaptors/connectors
for various protocols such as SNMP, RMI, CORBA, TL1, HTTP,
and HTML. You can have a walkthrough of different adaptors
supported.
In addition to the supported adaptors, the toolkit allows
to add protocol adaptors/connectors to the multi-protocol
agent framework without interrupting the agent processing,
thus adhering to "Instrument Once Access With Any
Protocol".
