[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] Add failover to the XML-RPC client
Simo Sorce
ssorce at redhat.com
Mon Feb 25 18:59:07 UTC 2008
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:50 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:49 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> >> Took Simo's advice and added a new XML-RPC function, ping(), that we can
> >> use just to see if the remote server is up and answering.
> >>
> >> Modified the config class to be able to return multiple servers in a
> >> list. We simply run thru that list each time a new rpcclient is
> >> instantiated.
> >
> > Can we add an argument to both the client and the server?
> > It would be useful to be able to exchange the cli/srv versions through
> > this command for future use:
> >
> > ping <cli-version>
> > pong <srv-version>
> >
> > Simo.
> >
>
> I think that is a nice-to-have for later. Neither the server nor client
> currently have any knowledge of versions of anything.
The idea is exactly to be able to recognize we are using outdated tools
(or too much up to date ones :) later. Maybe there are other means
too ...
Simo.
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