Chapter 13. Building Your Monitoring Plug-in
In the initial chapters, we learned about the Enterprise Manager Grid Control architecture, features, sub-systems, and so on. We learned that Enterprise Manager provides a centralized console for the monitoring and managing of the whole data center. We saw that Enterprise Manager provides a monitoring and management support for many commonly used middleware platforms and applications. There are a lot of middleware products and platforms on the market and there can be products where Enterprise Manager doesn't provide monitoring and management support out-of-the-box. To support centralized management for such products, Enterprise Manager provides an extensibility framework. Using this framework, vendors of other products and end-users can add management support where not available.
Management support built using an extensibility framework is packaged as a monitoring plug-in. These plug-ins can be deployed an existing Enterprise Manager installation...
