This is a base class that other registration plugins can use to handle regular announcements to the mcollective
The configuration file determines how often registration messages gets sent using the registerinterval option, the plugin runs in the background in a thread.
Register plugins that inherits base
# File lib/mcollective/registration/base.rb, line 11 def self.inherited(klass) PluginManager << {:type => "registration_plugin", :class => klass.to_s} end
Creates a background thread that periodically send a registration notice.
The actual registration notices comes from the ‘body’ method of the registration plugins.
# File lib/mcollective/registration/base.rb, line 19 def run(connection) config = Config.instance return if config.registerinterval == 0 Thread.new do loop do begin target = Util.make_target("registration", :command, config.main_collective) reqid = Digest::MD5.hexdigest("#{config.identity}-#{Time.now.to_f.to_s}-#{target}") filter = {"agent" => "registration"} registration_message = body unless registration_message.nil? req = PluginManager["security_plugin"].encoderequest(config.identity, target, registration_message, reqid, filter) Log.debug("Sending registration #{reqid} to #{target}") connection.send(target, req) else Log.debug("Skipping registration due to nil body") end sleep config.registerinterval rescue Exception => e Log.error("Sending registration message failed: #{e}") sleep config.registerinterval end end end end