Contents About the Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit 4 Introduction to Plug-in Development 5 The Role of the Server and Agent in Plug-ins 5 Technical Overview 6 Plug-in Implementations 6 Using Support Classes to Simplify a Plug-in 6 Writing Plug-ins 7 Running and Testing Plug-ins from the Command Line 26 2 Using Auto-Discovery Support Classes in Plug-ins 41 Auto-Discovery Classes 41 Auto-Discovery Interfaces 42 Specifying Auto-Discovery Implementation for a Resource Type 43 Measurement Plug-ins 44 3 Working with Plug-in Descriptors 50 Hierarchy of Managed Object Types 50 Management Functions and Classes for Object Types 51 Inventory and Configuration Data for Object Types 51 Metrics to Collect for Each Object Type 51 Structure of a Plug-in Descriptor 51 Functionality of Plug-in Descriptor Elements 53 4 Plug-In Support Classes 55 Auto-Discovery Support Classes 55 Measurement Support Classes 70 ProductPlugin Class 73 Server Resource Class 73 Service Resource class 8 Config Response Class 80Contents About the Endpoint Operations Management Agent Plug-in Development Kit 4 1 Introduction to Plug-in Development 5 The Role of the Server and Agent in Plug-ins 5 Technical Overview 6 Plug-in Implementations 6 Using Support Classes to Simplify a Plug-in 6 Writing Plug-ins 7 Running and Testing Plug-ins from the Command Line 26 2 Using Auto-Discovery Support Classes in Plug-ins 41 Auto-Discovery Classes 41 Auto-Discovery Interfaces 42 Specifying Auto-Discovery Implementation for a Resource Type 43 Measurement Plug-ins 44 3 Working with Plug-in Descriptors 50 Hierarchy of Managed Object Types 50 Management Functions and Classes for Object Types 51 Inventory and Configuration Data for Object Types 51 Metrics to Collect for Each Object Type 51 Structure of a Plug-in Descriptor 51 Functionality of Plug-in Descriptor Elements 53 4 Plug-In Support Classes 55 Auto-Discovery Support Classes 55 Measurement Support Classes 70 ProductPlugin Class 73 ServerResource Class 73 ServiceResource Class 80 ConfigResponse Class 80 VMware, Inc. 3