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This method returns a list of registry keys to scan. The ServerDetector class

contains default implementation for this function, which requests keys from

the plug-in descriptor file. The example XML content that is used in this

document results in the single list member SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet

Explorer.

A user can implement/overwrite this method to return a list of keys directly.

Returns: A list of registry keys.

Example: Usage

package hq.example;

import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.List;

import org.hyperic.hq.product.PluginException;

import org.hyperic.hq.product.RegistryServerDetector;

import org.hyperic.hq.product.ServerDetector;

import org.hyperic.hq.product.ServerResource;

import org.hyperic.sigar.win32.RegistryKey;

import org.hyperic.util.config.ConfigResponse;

public class CustomRegistryScanDetector

extends ServerDetector

implements RegistryServerDetector {

/** Base PTQL query to find matching processes by full path */

private static final String PTQL_QUERY = "State.Name.eq=iexplore";

public List getServerResources(ConfigResponse platformConfig, String path, RegistryKey

current)

throws PluginException {

List servers = new ArrayList();

ConfigResponse productConfig = new ConfigResponse();

productConfig.setValue("process.query", PTQL_QUERY);

ServerResource server = createServerResource(path);

setProductConfig(server, productConfig);

server.setMeasurementConfig();

servers.add(server);

return servers;

}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<plugin

name="registryscan-example"

package="hq.training">

<metrics

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