PAS for OpenEdge administrators can monitor and manage their applications using Java Monitoring and Management Console (JConsole) and OEManager. Beginning with the OpenEdge 11.7.3 release, System Administrators can also monitor and manage instances through scripts using the OEJMX command line utility to connect to a local PAS for OpenEdge instance. Based on JMX (Java Management Extensions), OEJMX connects to an instance using Java objects called Managed Beans, MBeans or simply beans. One or more beans instrument a resource using attributes and operations. This direct access to the underlying beans provides administrators with the freedom to write scripts to monitor and manage applications in ways that may not be available within OpenEdge Management or JConsole.