org.sblim.cimclient.discovery

Interface Discoverer

All Known Implementing Classes:

DiscovererSLP

public interface Discoverer

Interface Discoverer offers methodology for discovering WBEM services.

Since:

2.0.2

Threading considerations:

Implementations SHALL ensure thread-safety

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String[]	findDirectoryServices() Finds directory services.
WBEMServiceAdvertisement[]	findWbemServices(java.lang.String[] pDirectoryUrls) Finds WBEM services using a given list of directory servers

Method Detail

findWbemServices

WBEMServiceAdvertisement[] findWbemServices(java.lang.String[] pDirectoryUrls)

Finds WBEM services using a given list of directory servers

Parameters:

pDirectoryUrls - An array of directory servers. For SLP this would be a list of DA URLs.

Returns:

The array of WBEM service advertisements found

findDirectoryServices

java.lang.String[] findDirectoryServices()

Finds directory services. The semantics of this method might be protocol specific. E.g. for SLP this sends a multicast into the local subnet looking first for directory agent, second for service agents.

Returns:

A String[] containing the URLs of the directories

Since:

2.0.3