Discovery search service

In a discovery search operation, the discovery client sends a discovery request to a multicast group and waits for responses. The agents must have a DiscoveryResponder registered in their MBean server in order to be found by the discovery service. All discovery responder which receive the discovery request send a response containing information about the connectors and protocol adaptor which 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.