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Agent Level


A JMX Agent is a management entity which runs in a JVM and acts as the liaison between the MBeans and the management application.  A JMX agent is composed of an MBeanServer, a set of MBeans representing managed resources, a minimum number of agent services implemented as MBeans, and typically at least one protocol adaptor or connector.

The agent level provides a specification for implementing agents.  This level is built upon instrumentation level  and makes use of it to define a standardized agent to manage JMX manageable resources.

This agent level comprises:
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