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PMDISCOVERSERVICES(3)   Library Functions Manual   PMDISCOVERSERVICES(3)

NAME         top

       pmDiscoverServices, __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions - discover
       PCP services on the network

C SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

       int pmDiscoverServices(const char *service, const char *mechanism, char ***urls);

       #include <pcp/libpcp.h>

       int __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions(const char *service, const char *mechanism, const char *optionsString, const volatile unsigned *flags, char ***urls);

       cc ... -lpcp

CAVEAT         top

       This documentation is intended for internal Performance Co-Pilot
       (PCP) developer use.

       These interfaces are not part of the PCP APIs that are guaranteed
       to remain fixed across releases, and they may not work, or may
       provide different semantics at some point in the future.

DESCRIPTION         top

       Given a PCP service name, as identified by service, and using the
       type of discovery optionally specified in mechanism,
       pmDiscoverServices returns, via urls, a list of URLs representing
       the services discovered on the network.

       The internal function __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions performs
       the same function and adds arguments for global options and a
       mechanism for interrupting the discovery process.

       The pmfind(1) utility provides command line access to both of
       these interfaces.

       Calling

       pmDiscoverServices(service, mechanism, urls)

       is equivalent to calling

       __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions(service, mechanism, NULL, NULL,
       urls);

       service specifies the PCP service to be discovered.  Currently
       supported services are PM_SERVER_SERVICE_SPEC and
       PM_PROXY_SERVICE_SPEC which search for pmcd(1), and pmproxy(1)
       servers respectively.

       mechanism specifies the style of discovery to be used.

       The currently supported mechanisms are:

       avahi  This searches for services which are broadcasting using
              mDNS via avahi-daemon(8).  An optional suffix ",timeout=N"
              may be added to specify the discovery timeout in floating-
              point multiples of one second.  The default timeout is 0.5
              seconds, which may be overridden by the
              AVAHI_DISCOVERY_TIMEOUT environment variable, also
              specified in floating-point multiples of one second.  If
              both are specified, then the value specified in the
              environment variable takes precedence.

       probe=<net-address>/<mask-bits>
              Actively probes the given subnet for the requested PCP
              service(s).  <net-address> is an inet or ipv6 network
              address and <mask-bits> is the number of bits used to
              define the subnet.  For example, 192.168.1.0/24 defines an
              8 bit subnet consisting of the addresses 192.168.1.0
              through 192.168.1.255.  An optional suffix ",maxThreads=N"
              may be added to limit the number of threads used while
              probing.  The default is the value of FD_SETSIZE (which is
              typically 1024) or the number of addresses in the subnet,
              whichever is less.  An optional suffix ",timeout=N" may be
              added to specify the timeout for each connection attempt
              in floating-point multiples of one second.  The default is
              0.02 seconds (20 milliseconds).

       shell  Probes the list of addresses provided by scripts for
              requested PCP service(s).  Several optional, comma-
              separated parameters can also be provided.  Firstly, the
              "path=DIR" option specifies the directory where commands
              like pcp-kube-pods(1) are located (defaults to
              $PCP_BINADM_DIR/discover/).  This setting can be further
              restricted to an individual command using the command=CMD
              option, but the default is to use all available commands
              from the path.  The "maxThreads=N" option limits the
              number of threads used while probing.  The default is the
              value of FD_SETSIZE (which is typically 1024) or the
              number of addresses returned by the scripts, whichever is
              less.  The "timeout=N" option may be added to limit the
              amount of time spent waiting for each connection attempt.
              N is a floating point number specifying the number of
              seconds to wait.  The default is 0.02 seconds (20
              milliseconds).

       mechanism may also be NULL, which means to use all available
       discovery mechanisms.

       For __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions, optionsString specifies
       global options to be applied to the discovery process.  Options
       are comma-separated and may be one or more of the following:

       resolve
              This requests that DNS name resolution be attempted for
              the addresses of any discovered services.

       timeout=N
              This specifies a timeout period after which the discovery
              process will be interrupted.  N is a floating point number
              representing the number of seconds before timing out.

       optionsString may also be NULL, which means that no global
       options are specified.

       For __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions, flags specifies a pointer to
       an object of type unsigned which is a bit mask of options/status
       flags for the discovery process.  The supported flags are:

       PM_SERVICE_DISCOVERY_RESOLVE
              Specifying this flag is equivalent to specifying resolve
              in the optionsString

       PM_SERVICE_DISCOVERY_INTERRUPTED
              This flag must be unset when calling
              __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions but may be set
              asynchronously (by an interrupt handler, for example) in
              order to interrupt the service discovery process.

       flags may also be NULL, which indicates that no flags are set.

       pmDiscoverServices and __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions will
       return the number of services discovered, else a value less than
       zero for an error.  The value zero indicates that no services
       were discovered.

       The resulting list of pointers, urls, and the values (the URLs)
       that the pointers reference will have been allocated by
       pmDiscoverServices or __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions with a
       single call to malloc(3), and it is the responsibility of the
       pmDiscoverServices or __pmDiscoverServicesWithOptions caller to
       free(urls) to release the space when it is no longer required.

       When an error occurs, or no services are discovered, urls is
       undefined (no space will have been allocated, and so calling
       free(3) is a singularly bad idea).

PCP ENVIRONMENT         top

       Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to
       parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP.  On each
       installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values
       for these variables.  The $PCP_CONF variable may be used to
       specify an alternative configuration file, as described in
       pcp.conf(5).  Values for these variables may be obtained
       programmatically using the pmGetConfig(3) function.

DIAGNOSTICS         top

       -EINVAL
              An invalid argument has been specified.

       -ENOMEM
              Unable to allocate memory required to process the request.

       -EOPNOTSUPP
              The specified mechanism is not supported.

SEE ALSO         top

       pmcd(1), pmfind(1), pmproxy(1), pcp-kube-pods(1), PMAPI(3),
       pmGetConfig(3), pcp.conf(5), pcp.env(5) and avahi-daemon(8).

COLOPHON         top

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