| package org.onlab.onos.net.host; |
| |
| import org.onlab.onos.net.Host; |
| import org.onlab.onos.net.provider.Provider; |
| |
| /** |
| * Provider of information about hosts and their location on the network. |
| */ |
| public interface HostProvider extends Provider { |
| |
| /** |
| * 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 {@link org.onlab.onos.net.host.HostProviderService#hostDetected} |
| * or {@link org.onlab.onos.net.host.HostProviderService#hostVanished} |
| * at some later point in time. |
| * |
| * @param host host to probe |
| */ |
| void triggerProbe(Host host); |
| |
| } |