2011/3/31 Dena Dragos <[email protected]>: > > Any suggestions on how the > discovery of the agents in the network should work? It's pretty > unclear for me with my current networking knowledge, but if the agent > is supposed to listen on port X and that specific port is used by > another TCP connection before the agent starts what would be the > back-up plan? Or it could work by just sending messages to all the > open ports on a host to see if there is an agent listening on those > ports. >
Ok, that actually seems two distinct questions to me but it raises a point I didn't consider in your proposal. Why are you going to exchange data between agents instead of directly sending to "Umit Agent Information Receiver" ? I'm afraid this decision is going to complicate things a lot here, the first thing that comes to my mind is some form of a routing protocol to solve it properly. The easier way is to not do this kind of discovery, let the agents add themselves to an agent's list. To do this safely, you could use a public-private key schema -- ssh. The second question is easily solved because you can trust a known agent to update its situation (port and host). > Best regards, > Dragos Dena > Regards, -- -- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Umit-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/umit-devel
