Issues.00149 - lordmundi/wikidoctest GitHub Wiki
00149: advertisement of services and entities
Summary: advertisement of services and entities
Created: 2009–05–15 13:35
Status: Not an Issue
Category: Request
From: frankie
Version: 2.0
Released_In:
Description:
Request for a way to scan the network for clients, managers, the services they provide, associated information, etc.
A solution using something industry standard like zeroconf would be best.
Comments
frankie October 18, 2012, at 07:28 PM: Marking this as "Not an Issue" since this was implemented and delivered in EDGE v2.2 under Issue 00290. EDGE by default now advertises the web commanding server, the remote commanding server, and doug managers, as well as a generic advertisement for any doug instance. This is all done if the appropriate support for mDNS is available on the machine, such as avahi being installed.
frankie May 19, 2009, at 09:28 AM: We would likely use avahi for this. This would mean the feature would be linux only once we have other platforms. If wanted on other OS platforms, we would have to implement something similar for Bonjour.