GT 3.9.5 Component Fact Sheet: WS MDS WebMDS (Tech Preview)

Brief component overview

WebMDS enables end users to view monitoring information via a standard web browser interface, without installing any additional software on their PC. WebMDS is implemented as a servlet that uses a plugin interface to gather monitoring information (or any other information in XML format) and XSLT transforms, and present the data to the user in a readable form. Web site administrators can customize their own WebMDS deployments by using HTML form options, configuring different plugins to collect data and XSLT transforms, and creating their own plugins and XSLT transforms.

Summary of features

Features new in release 3.9.5:

  • Extensible plugin interface to support various mechanisms to gather monitoring information and XSLT transforms.
  • Plugins to acquire monitoring information via resource property mechanisms.
  • Plugin to acquire XSLT transforms by reading from local files.

Other Supported Features

  • WebMDS is a new component, so all its features are "new in release 3.9.5".

Deprecated Features

  • None

Backward compatibility summary

Protocol changes since GT version 3.2:

  • WebMDS did not exist in GT version 3.2.

API changes since GT version 3.2:

  • WebMDS did not exist in GT version 3.2.

Exception changes since GT version 3.2:

  • WebMDS did not exist in GT version 3.2.

Schema changes since GT version 3.2:

  • WebMDS did not exist in GT version 3.2.

Technology dependencies

WebMDS depends on the following GT components:

  • Java WS Core

WebMDS depends on the following 3rd party software:

Tested platforms

Tested Platforms for WebMDS:

  • The WebMDS server has only been tested with Tomcat version 5.0.28; it has been tested on Redhat Linux (i386) and, to a lesser extent, on Windows XP.
  • On the client side, WebMDS should be accessible from any web browser on any platform.

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