5.3.1 General approach for operational tasks

In order to invoke an operation on a running MBean, you first need to know the name of the running object. Then you invoke the method on a fully qualified object name. This means that invoking operations usually involves two types of commands:

Find the object name.

Invoke the operation.

In simple cases, the two commands can be combined.

Similarly, in order to change an attribute of a running object, you first need to know the object name of that running object. This means that getting or setting attributes involves a sequence of two commands:

Find the object name of the running object/MBeans.

Get or set attributes for that running object.

Use the queryNames and completeObjectName commands of the AdminControl object to identify the name of a running object. See Help for information about how to do this.