[Openslp-users] How does an application know to re-register?

[mclellan, d. <dav...@em...>]

Hi all. Novice question alert; we are fairly new to use of OpenSLP.

Suppose an application has registered using SLPReg successfully in an environment without the Directory agent.  If the local Service Agent fails for whatever reason and must be restarted, all registrations held by that Service Agent are lost.

How does the application get notified, if at all, that it should close its handle, open a handle and register again?  Is there any notification provided via the registration callback?  I don't think so, from what I have read.   My conclusion is that there isn't a way for a registered process to know if the openSLP infrastructure on which it depends fails and has been re-initialized.

Such notification would have to be done by some other monitoring entity, presumably the same entity which notices the SLP infrastructure failure and recovers it.   Are these correct assumptions?

Thanks very much for any advice.

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