Patent ID: 7539743

Claim:
A method of administration in a JMX environment comprising a plurality of software systems to be administered, represented by first respective MBeans, and at least one administration application, in which the administration acts produce the exposure of MBeans in at least one MBeanServer server, the method being implemented by a mediation device and comprising: a hierarchical structure of administration components, representing MBeans from among which there figure first MBeans and in which each administration component is identified by a unique name, is constructed in said mediation device; following at least the receipt of the name of an administration component of said hierarchical structure, provided by said administration application, the mediation device dispatches a determined command to the administration component identified by said name; following the receipt of said determined command, the administration component, if said determined command represents at least one MBean, exposes in said MBeanServer at least said MBean; and when said administration component possesses descendent administration components in the hierarchical structure, the mediation device propagates said command to said descendents.