Conference azur::mcc

746.0. "Help needed writing an AM" by STKHLM::BERGGREN (Nils Berggren SWAS/Telecom,Sweden) Fri Feb 22 1991 05:46

    Hi, 
    
    I'm very new to DecMCC and have been assigned to work in a project
    involving MCC.  We are writing a system for money-marketing for one of
    the largest banks here in Sweden.
    
    The system will consist of aprox 200 WS where the dealers will buy and
    sell and a central system as kind of a server.  The customer wants to
    be able to monitor all the WS:s via DecMcc; so my work is to write the
    appropriate Access-Module and Agent-module.
     
    Now to my problem:  I haven't succeed to fully understand how to do this by
    reading the documentation I have managed to get my hands on.  Are there
    anyone out there who can:
    	1. tell me waht documentation to read to fully understand how the
           AM and Agent-module are supposed to work and be written
    	2. Where to find this documentation 
    	3. give me an example 
    	4. describe how to implement event-handling
    
        Thanks in advance,
            Nils Berggren
     

    Look in the Management Module programming guide for good explanations
    and examples. The SRM has a chapter on Events. I have some sample code
    for a simple get & put event. 

    
    I'm not sure at all what you are trying to do.  It may be that you do
    not require an Access Module at all.
    
    What kinds of systems are you trying to manage?  Do they talk in one
    of the native protocols for which DECmcc already has access modules,
    such as SNMP or DECnet?
    
    It may be that you will want a presentation module on top of DECmcc to
    provide a special purpose interface for this customer.
    
    Before you attack the programming aspects of DECmcc, I'd recommend
    starting with the Introduction to DECmcc.  Find out what is already in
    place, and see what you can do to exploit that.
    
    -Jim Carey