com.netscape.pm.model
Interface IPMIDManager

public interface IPMIDManager

Defines an object to provide sequentially increasing instance id numbers for newly created process instances. The implementing object will serve as the engine's sequence generator across multiple back-end database architectures.

Method Summary

long	generateInstanceId() Returns the next available instance id for the cluster.

Method Detail

generateInstanceId

public long generateInstanceId()
                        throws PMException

Returns the next available instance id for the cluster.

Returns:

the next available instance id for the cluster.

Throws:

PMException - if there is a problem connecting to the back-end database server where the instance id range is stored.

Since:

PAE 4.0