What are QMF Agents, and what do they do for me?
An Agent is any client (producer or consumer) that generates a QMF schema and registers itself to be management by QMF. A great use case of this is a consumer that is processing order from a queue can reference itself to that queue and for example provide a schema for the number or successful orders process and a method to suspend processing. Now it becomes possible to use qpid-tool to connect to the broker, see which order processors are on queue via the reference and the via the stats of the order processor client. It is also possible to issue a command to the client via qpid-tool to suspend processing. ACL in the broker can be applied to all these actions if desired.
