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Linux in the Network

21.6 SLP Services in the Network

The service location protocol (SLP) was developed with the aim of simplify-

ing the conﬁguration of networked clients within a local network. To con-

ﬁgure a network client, including all required services, the administrator

traditionally needs detailed knowledge of the servers available in the net-

work. SLP is used to make the availability of a certain service known to all

clients in the local network. Applications that support SLP can use the in-

formation distributed and be conﬁgured automatically.

Note

SLP Support in SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server

Services that offer SLP support include cupsd, rsyncd, ypserv,

openldap2, openwbem (CIM), ksysguardd, saned, kdm vnc

Note

21.6.1 SLP Support in SUSE LINUX

SUSE LINUX supports installation using installation sources provided via

SLP and contains many system services with integrated support for SLP.

YaST and Konqueror both have appropriate front-ends for SLP. You can

use SLP to provide networked clients with central functions, such as instal-

lation server, YOU server, ﬁle server, or print server on your SUSE LINUX

Enterprise Server.

Installation via SLP

If you offer an installation server with SUSE LINUX installation media

within your network, this can be registered with SLP. For details, see Sec-

tion 4.1 on page 152. If SLP installation is selected, linuxrc starts an SLP

inquiry after the system has booted from the selected boot medium and

displays the sources found.

Registering Your Own Services

Many applications under SUSE LINUX already have integrated SLP sup-

port through the use of the libslp library. If a service has not been com-

piled with SLP support, use one of the following methods to make it avail-

able with SLP:

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