Yes, it's primarily for managing mbitor eans, but it's alaso a great way of viewing how EAS and the services architecture is structured. Give background on Mbeans.

blue sphere is mbean; yellow sphere is for deployed.

Explorer Area

Deployer tools, Assember tool, browser tool.

a service is one or more facilities.

A service is a virtual mbean. Like a view of a database.

All facility groups are described by a virutal bean.

By Containment is a new view of the tree of how EAS is structured.

is the naming convetion a jmx or a jndi thing?

if you see the graph buttons show up, you're looking at a virtual mbean.

The developer selects a qualifier in order to have their mbean show up in one of the "By Type" buckets. Winds up in "Ohter" if this hasn't been done.

Workspace Areas where you do most of your editing. This is where property sheets for each mbean is displayed and its attributes. Attributes and Operations are fields and methods. Qualifers are a new feature in enhydra that give the range of values, for example, on a "CheckLevelObject" field/attribute. Qualifers are added during deployment. Qualifier gives you ability to do context-sensitive tooltip. Can do range checking for simple min and max.

Info panel is at the bottom.

Tool box is like a clipboard for dragging and dropping things, such as MBeans, MBean attributes. The clipbard is persistent bewteen sessions. Similar to Windows shortcuts.

Can open up areas in their own windows, such as Exploer.

Tooltips are great until you get used to the functionality and how to get to the more esoteric aspects of LMC.

Status history: what's happening with the server. right click to open it up in its own window so you have more working area for the explorer and workspce.

To connect... you can search for serves... connect to more than one server if you like.

The ... elipse is for editing arrays... a dialog opens up with a list.

Use the Preferences dialog to change the deauflt port number when loggin into a server.

when you login into a server, it fetches all the mbeans for that server. You can watch this in the Status History window.

when you click on an mbean, you get a fresh copy. Use refesh button if you're not sure.

pencil gets put in the tree and the mbean icon if it's dirty.

Show the preferences dialog. Pick the view that gives you the most real estate.