Packages are re-usable and allow for redundancy and ease of administration. SCM uses the serviceconfig.xml file to determine the services to run, how to run them and dependencies between services. The Administrator tools are used to graphically manipulate the configuration files. One could edit the config files directly with editors or perl, but the admin tools are designed to be user friendly ways to configure the system. Discovery Discovery performs an advanced ICMP sweep of devices in a discovery range.
Discovery is a threaded system allowing pools to pollers.
Discovery is limited by Bandwidth trolls which control how much traffic is consumed by discovery. When a device is found by discovery, capsd checks it against the discovery filter. If it passes through the filter, it is added to the object database and added to the known node list. Initial service pollers include ICMP, HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, DNS, FTP and others. Additional pollers can be bolted into the architecture as needed.