The Devil Framework Application Server is a component based system. Every component is based on a common core specialized using generic and custom plugins.

Available Components

The Devil Framework Application Server system components are:

• MCP: this is the Master Control Processor of the system and where the management consoles connect to manage and configure the whole system.

• Collectors: general purpose data collectors and filters used to distribute processing load and access remote networks.

• Agents: lite-weight services running on remote hosts, providing access to the host internals.

• Devices: these are devices accessed through specific add-ons installed into the system.

System Organization

All these components are interconnected in a tree-like structure with the MCP as the root, the Agents and the Devices as the leafs and any number of Collectors as the sub-nodes of the tree.

Extensibility & Configurability

All components are plugin based, allowing run-time setup, update and extension without down-time.

All the different components are based on the same base core, whose functionality is expanded and customized with general and ad-hoc plugins.

Some examples about how plugins can augment system functionalities:

• Add new event generators.

• Add new event processors.

• Add new event storage backends.

• Add new device drivers.

• Add new reactive actions.

• Add new event types.

• Add new configuration policies.

• Add new event views.

• Add new visualization functionalities and widgets.

This modularized environment is controlled by advanced and flexible configuration policies that guarantee easy deployment and management of both simple and complex systems.