Bull's Cmip Agent Development Kit a Platform for the Rapid Development of Cmip Agents & Objects

Bull supplies a full range of IT and networking equipment from mainframes to personal computers, and corresponding integration services in over 100 countries around the world. A key product thrust is the development and deployment of Integrated System Management and Security and security solutions to enterprises of all sizes. Bull's ISM/Manager provides manager functionality in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. The internal object model is the ISO/CMIS (X.700) one. Thus it is only natural that we should also consider the problem of development of the corresponding agent, and more specifically the objects, without which the best manager in the world is pretty useless! This presentation focuses on the Agent Development Kit that we devedoped in order to produce CMIS managed objects, fast on a variety of end systems. A key feature of the kit is that it includes a basic set of generic system management functions in the core of the toolkit, leaving the user free to focus on the addedvalue, i.e. the object methods themselves. 0-7803-181 1-0/94$04.00