RFC 3822 (rfc3822) - Page 2 of 11
Finding Fibre Channel over TCP/IP (FCIP) Entities Using Service Location Protocol version 2 (SLPv2)
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RFC 3822 Finding FCIP Entities Using SLPv2 July 2004
User Agent (UA) A process working on the client's behalf
to establish contact with some service.
The UA retrieves service information from
the Service Agents or Directory Agents.
Service Agent (SA) A process working on behalf of one or more
services to advertise the services and
their capabilities.
Directory Agent (DA) A process which collects service
advertisements. There can only be one DA
present per given host.
Scope A named set of services, typically making
up a logical administrative group.
Service Advertisement A URL, attributes, and a lifetime
(indicating how long the advertisement is
valid), providing service access
information and capabilities description
for a particular service.
FCIP Entity The principle FCIP interface point to the
IP network.
FCIP Entity Name The world wide name of the switch if the
FCIP Entity resides in a switch or the
world wide node name of the associated
Nx_Port.
FCIP Discovery Domain The FCIP Discovery Domain specifies which
FCIP Entities are allowed to discover each
other within the bounds of the scope.
4. Using SLPv2 for FCIP Service Discovery
At least two FCIP Entities must be involved in the entity discovery
process. The end result is that an FCIP Entity will discover one or
more peer FCIP Entities.
4.1. Discovering FCIP Entities using SLPv2
Figure 1 shows the relationship between FCIP Entities and their
associated SLPv2 agents.
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