Class MCollective::Agents
In: lib/mcollective/agents.rb
Parent: Object

A collection of agents, loads them, reloads them and dispatches messages to them. It uses the PluginManager to store, load and manage instances of plugins.

Methods

activate_agent?   agentlist   class_for_agent   clear!   dispatch   findagentfile   include?   loadagent   loadagents   new  

Public Class methods

agentlist()

Get a list of agents that we have

Public Instance methods

activate_agent?(agent)

Checks if a plugin should be activated by calling activate? on it if it responds to that method else always activate it

class_for_agent(agent)

Builds a class name string given a Agent name

clear!()

Deletes all agents

dispatch(request, connection) {|replies| ...}

Dispatches a message to an agent, accepts a block that will get run if there are any replies to process from the agent

findagentfile(agentname)

searches the libdirs for agents

include?(agentname)

Determines if we have an agent with a certain name

loadagent(agentname)

Loads a specified agent from disk if available

loadagents()

Loads all agents from disk

[Validate]