Discovery Support Service

The discovery support service passively monitor discovery responders in a multicast group. When discovery responders are activated or deactivated, indicating that their agent is starting or stopping, they send a multicast message about their new state. A discovery monitor object listens for discovery responder objects starting or stopping in the multicast group.

By registering listeners with the discovery monitor, a management application may know when agents become available or unavailable. The discovery support message for an agent that is being started also contains the list of its connector and protocol adaptor.

A management application can use the discovery monitor to maintain a list of active agents and the protocols they support.