Configuring Scopes

Scopes are configured by setting the net.slp.useScopes property in the slp.conf file to a comma-separated list of scope names. Construct scope names using the following grammatical guidelines:

• Any alphanumeric characters, upper or lower-case

• Any punctuation characters (except for: '', \, !, <, =, >, and ~).

• Spaces that are considered part of the name

• Non-ASCII characters

  You use a backslash to escape non-ASCII characters. For example, UTF-8 encoding uses 0xc3a9 hex code to represent the letter e with the French aigue accent. If the platform does not support UTF-8, you use the UTF-8 hex code as the escape sequence \c3\a9.

How to Configure Scopes

This procedures assumes (as an example) that you are creating scopes eng and mktg in bldg6. In this case, you are configuring multiple scopes.

1. Become superuser.

2. Edit the /etc/inet/slp.conf file and change the net.slp.useScopes line to:

   net.slp.useScopes=eng,mktg,bldg6

3. Save the file and exit.