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Preface
The Developing CORBA Applications guide provides information required to develop CORBA based network manager applications that interact with the SEM CORBA Gateway. It contains procedures, guidelines and examples for various functions that can be carried out through these interactions.
Who Should Use This Book
This document is intended for SEM CORBA applications developers, which includes architects, designers and coders. No prior experience with Solstice Enterprise Manager (Solstice EM) is assumed. However, if you are not familiar with Solstice EM, see Related Books for a listing of books to refer.
Before You Read This Book
Read through the Solstice EM documentation so that you have an understanding of the programming context, because many parts of this book refer to concepts that are covered in documents listed in section Related Books.
It is assumed that you have a basic understanding of CORBA application development as well as Network Management concepts. It is also recommended that you go through the JIDM document, Inter-Domain Management: Specification Translation and Interaction Translation.
How This Book Is Organized
This book contains the following chapters:
Chapter 1 Introduction to SEM CORBA Development Environment provides an introduction to SEM CORBA development environment.
Chapter 2 Interacting With SEM CORBA Gateway introduces the various interfaces that SEM CORBA Gateway implements and explains how to interact with the SEM CORBA Gateway.
Chapter 3 Managing Networks With SEM CORBA Gateway explains SEM CORBA Gateway from the network management perspective.
Chapter 4 Handling Events With SEM CORBA Gateway explains event handling in detail.
Chapter 5 Translating Data describes various data formats used in SEM CORBA Gateway and how to transform from one to the other.
Chapter 6 Accessing Information Through Metadata Gateway describes Metadata Gateway functionality and how to interact with Metadata Gateway.
Chapter 7 Managing Agents describes how to manage different kinds of agents (SNMP/CMIP) using SEM CORBA Gateway.
Chapter 8 Interoperating SEM CORBA Gateway considers scenarios where the manager application is developed using different ORBs other than the ORB used for SEM CORBA Gateway.
Appendix A IDLs Used by SEM CORBA Gateway provides a listing of IDLs used by SEM CORBA Gateway.
Appendix B Programming Techniques details a few programming tips for CORBA application development.
Appendix C criteria for ProxyAgents details criteria for ProxyAgents.
Related Books
Following is a list of related books:
- Developing C++ Applications
- Management Information Server (MIS) Guide
- Managing Your Network
- Customizing Guide
- CORBA Gateway Administration Guide
What Typographic Changes Mean
The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.
Shell Prompts in Command Examples
The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
TABLE P-2 Shell Prompts C shell prompt machine_name% C shell superuser prompt machine_name# Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt $ Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt #
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