JiroTM Management Applications

Jiro^TM is a Sun product that provides the infrastructure and plumbing for building distributed applications. Distributed services such as event handling, logging, transaction management, security, as well as basic communication services for distributed objects are included. Jiro is written in Java and uses the Jini¿ name and lookup services. Jiro is a product implementation of the Federated Management Architecture. The Federated Management Architecture is a three tier architecture consisting of clients, mangement services and managed resources. This paper discusses the basic architecture of Jiro as well as two Jiro prototypes based on the StorageTek ACSLS¿ tape library software and the StorageTek 9840 tape drive.