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Network Address Monitoring and Messaging API
An engine and extensible API for monitoring interface addresses and programmatically responding to their changes.
Date Posted: April 6, 2004
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What is the Network Address Monitoring and Messaging API?
The Network Address Monitoring and Messaging API is an engine and extensible API for monitoring interface addresses and programmatically responding to their changes.
This API's versatile JavaTM framework enables programmers to monitor changes of interface addresses, whether they be local to the machine on which the engine is running or accessible by other means. The engine will then invoke customized notification/messaging code, allowing another programmatic method by which updates can be made to services such as DNS, LDAP, RDBMS, or users and/or bots via e-mail.
How does it work? This flexibility supports the dynamism required for remote access to networks connected via dynamic links (DHCP) or dynamic DNS services. The program can be run on intervals, or placed into daemon mode as a UNIX or Windows® service. An API is provided for extending the included sample implementations.
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| | About the technology author(s):
Stephen Cuppett is a software engineer in the software group development lab at IBM Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He currently works in system verification testing as part of the Communications Server for z/OS team. He holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Accounting from Penn. State.
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