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08-25-2014

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Discovery Tools.

Hi Folks,

realise that this forum might not be the exact match for this question, so feel free to put it somewhere more apropriate.

I'm currently involved in a project that has gone somewhat pear shaped, just to keep this all short the situation is as follows. I was brought in to manage a migration project, now I'm running the Unix estate - without any local knowledge to fall back on. I have sufficient unix knowledge and can call on windows resource if required, but do have to work within some constraints relating to security.

So the help I'm looking for is a pointer to a discovery tool that will allow me to carry out a full network discovery, on what's up on the network and what it's got open. Any assistance would be appreciated, especially when it comes to tools that will give me an output that I can present to the users - for this crowd "Pictures would be good"!

Regards

Dave

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pmdiscoverservices

PMDISCOVERSERVICES(3)					     Library Functions Manual					     PMDISCOVERSERVICES(3)

NAME

       pmDiscoverServices - discover PCP services on the network

C SYNOPSIS

       #include <pcp/pmapi.h>

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

       cc ... -lpcp

DESCRIPTION

       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.

       service specifies the PCP service to be discovered. Currently,  only  PM_SERVER_SERVICE_SPEC  is  supported,  which  searches  for  pmcd(1)
       servers.

       mechanism  specifies  the  style of discovery to be used. Currently, only "avahi" is supported. This searches for services which are broad-
       casting using mDNS via avahi-daemon(8).	mechanism may also be NULL, which means to use all available discovery mechanisms.

       Normally, pmDiscoverServices will return the number of services discovered, else a value less than zero for an error.  The value zero indi-
       cates 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
       with a single call to malloc(3C), and it is the responsibility of the pmDiscoverServices 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(3C) is a
       singularly bad idea).

PCP ENVIRONMENT

       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 configura-
       tion file, as described in pcp.conf(5).	Values for these variables may be obtained programmatically using the pmGetConfig(3) function.

SEE ALSO

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

DIAGNOSTICS

       EOPNOTSUPP
	      The specified mechanism is not supported.

Performance Co-Pilot							PCP						     PMDISCOVERSERVICES(3)