The Diagnostic Provider registration XML is used to provide
information about the exposed configuration, state, and self diagnostic
attributes and tests to the Diagnostic Provider utility. It is also
used to populate objects needed later in the process, to assist in
filtering, and to assist in localization.
Before you begin
Programming knowledge of your system and the proper authorities
to perform the following steps.
About this task
The steps that follow outline a general process for creating
a Diagnostic Provider (DP) registration Extensible Markup Language
(XML) file.
Procedure
- Start with the DP document type definition (DTD). If
you are using the helper methods (see the step called Create your
DP implementation in Creating a Diagnostic Provider),
you can use this DOCTYPE line to pick up the common DTD:
<!DOCTYPE diagnosticProvider PUBLIC "RasDiag" "/DiagnosticProvider.dtd">
If you are extending an existing MBean with an existing
XML configuration, you might need either to add the DP XML to an existing
DTD, or omit the DP XML entirely. If you omit the DP XML, you will
not be able to validate that your XML file is well formed.
- Follow the conventions described in Diagnostic Provider Extensible Markup Language to help keep your XML consistent
with other components. You can find an example of a small
DP registration XML file in Diagnostic Provider method implementation.