2.5.7 Discovery Search Service

In a discovery search operation, the discovery client sends a discovery request to a multicast group and waits for responses. To be found by the discovery service, the agents must have a DiscoveryResponder registered in their MBean server. All discovery responders that receive the discovery request send a response that contains information about the connectors and the protocol adaptor that are available in their agent.

Figure 2–4 The Discovery Search Service

A manager application might use the discovery search service during its initialization phase, to determine all agents that are accessible in its network environment.