Troubleshooting Slp Configuration - Novell CLIENT FOR LINUX 1.2 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

4 Complete the Novell Client Configuration Wizard.
5 Restart the workstation.

4.4.2 Troubleshooting SLP Configuration

If users cannot see a list of available trees, contexts, and servers when they use the Novell Client for
Linux Login screen, use slptool, located in /usr/bin, to troubleshoot your SLP configuration.
After you start slpd (located in /usr/sbin), you should be able to issue a query for SLP service
agents using the following command:
slptool findsrvs service:service-agent
This should display a list of the hosts that are running slpd, which indicates that OpenSLP is
successfully installed and working. If you do not get a list, OpenSLP is not installed correctly or is
not working. See
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SLP is designed to use IP multicasting; however, if any SLP Agent does not implement IP
multicasting, then all Agents must use broadcasting to reach that Agent. If a DA does not
support multicasting, we recommend using the Directory Agent List to configure that
Directory Agent rather than using this option.
If the network does not contain a DA, IP servers must use their own SAs to specify the
services that are available. If the SA does not support multicasting and if there are any
services advertised by that SA that are needed by the UA on this machine, then use the
Broadcast Only option.
Broadcasting has the disadvantage of being limited to the local LAN segment.
• Maximum Results: Specify a 32-bit integer giving the maximum number of results to
accumulate and return for a synchronous request before the time-out, or the maximum
number of results to return through a callback if the request results are reported
asynchronously.
Section 4.4.1, "Setting Up SLP," on page 29 for more information.