From: Renier M. <re...@us...> - 2007-07-02 14:24:33
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ope...@li... wrote on 07/02/2007 04:03:59 AM: > Hi all, > > I just joined OpenHPI, and I have a general question regarding > OpenHPI on clustered systems. > > Are there any mechanisms within OpenHPI core to discover other > physical entitities than the one running on? Yes, by traversing the RPT table with saHpiRptEntryGet from a user point of view. The core library relies on the hardware platform plugins to to let it know about new entities. > It seems that the BC > SNMP plugin discovers other entities via SNMP GETs to some common > MIB. Does this mean that there is no generic inter-entity > communication via the core, but that this goes via the plugins? Right. Inter-entity communication is not how we have implemented HPI. We use a plugin architecture, and the plugin provides information for its hardware platform through a plugin abi. --Renier > > Thanks. Best regards, > Dinand > |