org.onosproject.net.host

Interface HostProvider

All Superinterfaces:

Provider

public interface HostProvider
extends Provider

Provider of information about hosts and their location on the network.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	triggerProbe(Host host) Triggers an asynchronous probe of the specified host, intended to determine whether the host is present or not.

Methods inherited from interface org.onosproject.net.provider.Provider

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Method Detail

triggerProbe

void triggerProbe(Host host)

Triggers an asynchronous probe of the specified host, intended to determine whether the host is present or not. An indirect result of this should be invocation of HostProviderService.hostDetected(org.onosproject.net.HostId, org.onosproject.net.host.HostDescription, boolean) or HostProviderService.hostVanished(org.onosproject.net.HostId) at some later point in time.

Parameters:

host - host to probe