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System Administration Commands                           slpd(1M)



NAME
     slpd - Service Location Protocol Daemon

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/lib/inet/slpd [-f configuration-file]


DESCRIPTION
     The slpd daemon provides common server functionality for the
     Service  Location  Protocol  ("SLP")  versions  1  and 2, as
     defined by IETF in RFC 2165 and RFC  2608.  SLP  provides  a
     scalable  framework  for the discovery and selection of net-
     work services.


     slpd provides the following framework services:

     Directory Agent

         This service automatically caches service advertisements
         from  service agents to provide them to user agents, and
         makes directory agent advertisements  of  its  services.
         This  service  is optional. slpd does not provide direc-
         tory agent service by default. Directory agents are  not
         databases, and they do not need to be maintained.


     Service Agent Server

         All service agents on the local host register and  dere-
         gister  with  this  server. This service responds to all
         requests for services,  and  forwards  registrations  to
         directory  agents.  By  default, slpd is a service agent
         server.


     Passive Directory Agent Discovery

         This service listens for directory agent  advertisements
         and  maintains a table of active directory agents.  When
         a user agent wishes to discover a  directory  agent,  it
         can  simply  query  slpd,  obviating the need to perform
         discovery by means of multicast. By default,  slpd  per-
         forms this service.


     Proxy Registration

         This service can act as a proxy service agent  for  ser-
         vices  that  cannot  register themselves. slpd reads the
         proxy registration file for information on  services  it
         is  to  proxy. By default, no services are registered by



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         proxy.



     All configuration options are available from the  configura-
     tion file. slpd reads its configuration file upon startup.


     Stop and start the slpd daemon using  svcadm(1M).   Use  the
     command  svcadm enable network/slp to start the slpd daemon.
     Use the command  svcadm disable network/slp to stop it.


     The file /etc/inet/slp.conf must exist before the  slp  ser-
     vice   can   start   the   daemon.  Only  the  example  file
     /etc/inet/slp.conf.example is present by default. To  enable
     SLP, copy /etc/inet/slp.conf.example to /etc/inet/slp.conf.

OPTIONS
     The following options are supported:

     -f configuration-file    Specify an alternate  configuration
                              file


EXAMPLES
     Example 1 Stopping the slpd daemon


     The following command stops the slpd daemon:


       example# svcadm disable network/slp



     Example 2 Restarting the slpd daemon


     The following command restarts the slpd daemon:


       example# svcadm restart network/slp



FILES
     /etc/inet/slp.conf    The default configuration file


     slpd.reg              The proxy registration file




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ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following  attri-
     butes:



     ________________________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |             ATTRIBUTE VALUE             |
    |_____________________________|_________________________________________|
    | Availability                | service/network/slp, service/network/slp|
    |_____________________________|_________________________________________|
    | CSI                         | Enabled                                 |
    |_____________________________|_________________________________________|
    | Interface Stability         |  Committed                              |
    |_____________________________|_________________________________________|


SEE ALSO
     svcs(1),     svcadm(1M),     slp_api(3SLP),     slp.conf(4),
     slpd.reg(4), attributes(5), smf(5), slp(7P)


     Guttman, E.,  Perkins, C., Veizades, J., and  Day,  M.,  RFC
     2608,  Service  Location  Protocol,  Version 2, The Internet
     Society, June 1999.

NOTES
     The slpd service is managed by the service management facil-
     ity, smf(5), under the service identifier:

       svc:/network/slp




     Administrative actions on this service,  such  as  enabling,
     disabling,  or  requesting  restart,  can be performed using
     svcadm(1M). The service's status can be  queried  using  the
     svcs(1) command.
















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