The Resource Management node provides an interface for viewing and managing Documentum resources exposed in the Documentum environment as Java Management Beans (MBeans). Documentum Administrator maintains the list of resource agents, which includes the information necessary to access a resource agent. The resource agent information is stored in the ResourceAgentsRegistry in the global registry.

Users access the MBean resources in the distributed network through a resource agent (JMX agent) to obtain a list of available MBean resources that they can manage. The Resource Management node displays a list of the resource agents; however, only a system administrator can create, delete, or update resource agents.

A resource agent may require authentication to access its resources (MBeans). Documentum Administrator first attempts to authenticate the user using the current session login information. If authentication fails, Documentum Administrator prompts for a user name and password.