1. What does SNMP Adaptor for JMX do?
2. What are the salient features of SNMP Adaptor for JMX?
3. What are the SNMP versions supported?
4. What is a Rule Engine?
5. What is a Rule Editor?

1. What does SNMP Adaptor for JMX do?

SNMP Adaptor for JMX provides quick SNMP access to the MBeans deployed in a JMX Agent. It also auto-generates the MIB specific to the MBeans. The out-of-the-box JBoss SNMP agent provides out-of-the-box fault and performance management for the JBoss application server.

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2. What are the salient features of SNMP Adaptor for JMX?

Key Features of SNMP Adaptor for JMX:

1. Out-of-the-box SNMP agent for JBoss 3.x.
2. JSR-77 MIB implementation for the JBoss application servers.
3. Memory and CPU monitoring for JBoss Servers.
4. Support for major JMX implementations such as MX4J, Sun JMX RI, TMX4J, JBossMX, WebLogic JMX, WebSphere JMX and Tomcat JMX.
5. Support for Standard, Dynamic, and Model MBeans.
6. Automatic SNMP MIB generation from existing MBeans. 
7. SNMP v1, v2c and v3 Support.
8. Automatic conversion of JMX notifications to SNMP Traps.
9. JMX based Rule Engine with a Rule Editor for creating, editing, and uploading management rules on the fly.
10. Manager tool (MIB browser) for testing the SNMP adaptor.
11. Simple wizard for mapping JMX MBeans with SNMP OIDs.
12. No code generation and minimal effort for configuring and deploying.
13. Authentication and Authorization mechanisms for SNMP v1/v2c.
14. Security options for SNMP v3; Both user based and view based control.
15. Trap forwarding to multiple managers.
16. Master-Sub agent architecture to provide proxy support for the existing SNMP agents.

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3. What are the SNMP versions supported?

SNMP versions v1, v2c and v3 are supported.

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4. What is a Rule Engine?

A Rule Engine may be viewed as a sophisticated Rule interpreter. The inputs to a Rule Engine are Ruleset (i.e. collection of rules) and some data objects. These rules are executed to check with some user-defined thresholds, which when exceeded would trigger SNMP Traps. The Rule Engine comes along with a Rule Editor which allows the user to add new rules at runtime.

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5. What is a Rule Editor?

When an application is being monitored, some critical events might require the administrator's attention. In such cases, the agent which monitors the application, will be configured for sending notifications. It will not suffice if this configuration is done at startup. The requirements would be changing dynamically. Rule Editor is a tool which allows the user to configure Rules for an agent and upload it to the agent at runtime.

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