Method and apparatus for publishing and monitoring entities providing services in a distributed data processing system
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for providing identification and monitoring of entities. A distributed data processing system includes one or more distributed publishing entities, which publish computer readable announcements in a standard language. These announcements may contain a description of a monitoring method that may be used to monitor the behavior of one or more distributed monitored entities. These announcements also may include information used to identify a monitoring method that may be used by the distributed monitored entity to monitor its own behavior or by a distributed consumer entity to monitor the behavior of the distributed monitored entity. The monitoring also may be performed by a third-party distributed monitoring entity.
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86 Claims
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1-20. -20. (canceled)
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21. A method for providing testing in a distributed data processing system, the method comprising:
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responsive to a request from a client for information for a selected service, identifying a registered entity providing the selected service; and
sending a reply to the client, wherein the reply includes information identifying the registered entity providing the selected service and a monitoring method for the entity, wherein the information is in a computer readable format, and wherein the information allows the client to monitor the registered entity providing the selected service. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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58. A data processing system for providing testing in a distributed data processing system, the data processing system comprising:
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identifying means, responsive to a request from a client for information for a selected service, for identifying a registered entity providing the selected service; and
sending means for sending a reply to the client, wherein the reply includes information identifying the registered entity providing the selected service and a monitoring method for the entity, wherein the information is in a computer readable format, and wherein the information allows the client to monitor the registered entity providing the selected service. - View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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85. A computer program product in a computer readable medium for providing testing in a distributed data processing system, the computer program product comprising:
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first instructions, responsive to a request from a client for information for a selected service, for identifying a registered entity providing the selected service; and
second instructions for sending a reply to the client, wherein the reply includes information identifying the registered entity providing the selected service and a monitoring method for the entity, wherein the information is in a computer readable format, and wherein the information allows the client to monitor the registered entity providing the selected service.
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86-87. -87. (canceled)
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