2008/01/04

Forte 4GL (UDS) basics - agents

one of the unmatched strength of Forté: System Agents.

a system agent manages an object in a deployed application, that is, at run time it is possible to execute some commands and inspect some instruments on the managed object.

usually those commands have to do with monitoring and tuning an application but they may interfere with the business logic e.g. the possibility to bump up the queue a batch file to be processed asap even though there is no dedicated interface to do so.

these agents are visible using the provided tools eConsole or escript or any in-house tool.

the console






the partition agent & sub agents




the available instruments and values.





and that's another issue when migrating.

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