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* RHQ Management Platform
* Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Red Hat, Inc.
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package org.rhq.core.pluginapi.availability;
import org.rhq.core.domain.measurement.AvailabilityType;
/**
* Provides the basic availability checking for all managed resources.
*
* @author John Mazzitelli
*/
public interface AvailabilityFacet {
/**
* The plugin container will occasionally call this method at the server level to see if the server is available.
* This method is intended to attempt a remote connection to the resource. When a sever is in the down state, no
* child discoveries will be performed. A downed resource also shuts down access at the child level - for example,
* if a JBossAS instance is down, the plugin container will not try to collect availabilities or metrics on an EJB
* entity running inside it. Availability for all child resources would automatically be set to
* {@link AvailabilityType#DOWN down} in this case.
*
* @return {@link AvailabilityType#UP} if the resource is responding as expected; {@link AvailabilityType#DOWN} if
* it is not responding as expected; {@link AvailabilityType#MISSING} if the resource type supports this feature
* and the resource is physically missing. Any other return value is invalid.
*/
AvailabilityType getAvailability();
}