Questions tagged [discovery]
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Network infrastructure discovery
I would like to perform a thorough LAN devices discovery, so that I can create a diagram similar to the one attached, but with additional information like IP and MAC addresses.
I've tried the code from Torry:
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PNetResourceArray =…

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Android Bluetooth StartDiscovery() always returns false
I am trying to discover bluetooth devices nearby, but startDiscovery() always returns false, as if it is not working. Therefore it is not able to find devices.
I saw that i have to include Coarse_Location permission apart from Bluetooth and…

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WCF Discovery returns hard-coded URL
The grand design is the following:
There is certain application that gets installed as a Windows Service
There may be several of these on the network
Each of them exposes some interface to the network (think of it as "remote control" or…

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OpenAPI or swagger.json auto discovery
Is there any spec or convention on URL where one should place swagger.json (or whatever name it is agreed) so that public API of my site can be automatically discovered?

anatoly techtonik
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Python test discovery with doctests, coverage and parallelism
... and a pony! No, seriously. I am looking for a way to organize tests that "just works". Most things do work, but not all pieces fit together. So here is what I want:
Having tests automatically discovered. This includes doctests. Note that the…

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Is the public UDDI movement dead or, was it ever alive?
I am trying to find some public UDDI registries to interact with, for learning purposes. But it seems there are none available. I popped the following question on SO to see if someone knows about any public registry still hosted, but got no…
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Network Device Discovery
For my Android app, users need to connect to a server that will be hosted somewhere on the same LAN. There can be multiple servers hosted on the same LAN. To make it easy for the user, I was going to scan the current LAN that the Android device is…

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Web service discovery in WCF : Ws-Discovery or UDDI?
I know the distinction between UDDI and Ws-Discovery (well know location to search a service vs broadcast). But my question is : what is the simplest way to discover a webservice in WCF ? By simplest I mean what is already implemented in WCF and can…

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Host is null in NsdServiceInfo of NsdManager.DiscoveryListener.onServiceFound
I'm trying to get the mHost of the NsdServiceInfo passed as parameter to NsdManager.DiscoveryListener.onServiceFound() but it's null.
I have two android devices where device 1 is the server and device 2 is the client.
This is how I register the…

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Are there any public UDDI registries available?
I am currently trying to get a grasp of UDDI and would like to run some examples with the inquiry API, but I can’t find public registries that I can query with my SOAP messages.
IBM, Microsoft and SAP used to host public UDDI servers a couple of…
user159088
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EC2 JGroups Discovery
For my current project, we've decided to deploy our application to Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud on some Linux boxes. We use JGroups for group communication and needed a reliable discovery mechanism that didn't require preconfiguring each…

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UDP Server Discovery - Should clients send multicasts to find server or should server send regular beacon?
I have clients that need to all connect to a single server process. I am using UDP discovery for the clients to find the server. I have the client and server exchange IP address and port number, so that a TCP/IP connection can be established after…

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Add Service Reference, Multiple Credential Prompt
I started a new blank console app project in VS (I am using VS2010), and choose Add Service Reference to a web service protected with a username and password.
When I click Go in the dialog box, I'm confronted with a Yes/No prompt to accept a…

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"Re-announcing" service periodically when using WCF ServiceDiscoveryBehavior announcement endpoint?
I have a Managed Discovery Service hosted with a known URI. I have a discoverable service that when it starts, it announces itself using an AnnouncementEndpoint added to the ServiceDiscoveryBehavior of the service.
The specific use case I would like…

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Leader address/location in Raft
This may be a very simple question but I've not been able to find a good answer to this yet. Maybe someone can help me.
Once a leader is elected -
The clients will send all requests ONLY to the leader. Is this correct?
Given that the location…

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