What is in the full product kit?

Administration:

• Administration features (supporting remote administration)
• Administrator GUI
• Secure administration

Security:

• Permissions and user ids
• Security certificates
• Encryption of agents in transit

Reliability:

• Fine-grained persistence
• Queuing of agents in transit
• Reliable events and event groups

Development tools:

• Remote agent debugging

The full product release of Concordia additionally provides:

• Security in the form of System Resource Protection
• Protection from tampering during Agent transmission via encryption, security certificates, and digital envelopes.
• GUI based Secure Administration Tools
• Reliable Agent Transmission via Agent Queuing Support
• A full-function mobile Agent Debugger for developers.

Agent Manager

• Integration with agent security features
• Integration with administration tool
• Agent administration features
• Agents can log messages into the Concordia Server log files.

Administration Tools

• GUI-based administration
• Ability to remotely stop servers
• Ability to remotely manage server properties
• Ability to install/deinstall agents
• Ability to create/modify/save itineraries
• Ability to remotely manage application specific servers based on the Service class.
• Ability to launch agents
• Ability to retrieve/reset Agent Manager Performance Statistics including: (statistics displayed in tabular form)
  • Server up-time
  • Total number of agents to pass through server since startup
  • Current number of agents in Server
  • Peek number of agents in Server at any one time
  • Total memory allocated to servers VM
  • Total free memory available in servers VM
• Uses JDBC for storage of administration information.
• Support for Secure Administration.
• Ability to establish dependencies among services for startup/shutdown.
• Remote Administration of users/passwords, permissions, and Security Certificates

Application Specific Services

• Service Bridge API modified to make it easier for developers to create services.

Collaboration

• Configurable, transparent, automatic restart of collaboration framework after failure.
• Configurable persistence of internal state.
• Configurable agent group proxies enhance reliability.

Distributed Events

• Selected events via Distributed Event Manager provide:
• Queuing and flushing of events for intransit agents.
• Integration with System Administration Facility.
• Configurable transparent, automatic restart of Event Manager after failure.
• Configurable, persistent event registrations.
• Flexible event registration mechanism.
• Group-Oriented Events provide:
• Queuing and flushing of events for intransit agents.
• Configurable, persistent group membership.

Queuing Support

• Ability to transmit agents reliably via a transactional agent queuing subsystem.
• Support for "store and forward" of Concordia agents with automatic transmission retries in case of server and/or network failures.
• Automatic queue storage extension when queue capacity is reached.
• Standalone queue storage browser tool for inspection and deletion of queue entries.

Security

• Permissions for any resource (native and non-native)
• Agent Allowed/Denied access to resources depending on user identification.
• Agent Allowed/Denied access to resources depending on Server permits.
• Resource Permissions maintained in a text file.
• Protection against rogue agents joining Concordia packages.
• Protection (via encryption) against others tampering with an agent while it is in transit between Servers.

Firewall Penetration Support

• Concordia provides support for sending agents, debugging agents and administering a Concordia Server through a firewall.

Documentation

• A "Concordia Administration Guide" for Administering Concordia Installations
• An "Agent Debugger User's Guide" for agent developers.