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| author | Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukkonen@intel.com> | 2013-10-23 16:19:51 +0300 |
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| committer | Jens Georg <jensg@openismus.com> | 2013-11-02 18:29:39 +0100 |
| commit | 969261619fa1a8916e7ae70dac78c1e0513ae2a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 899b0251fff097f69673a99f0714f1eda4964b7c /doc/README.BasicManagement | |
| parent | d1f14660839ea7b7bca000de9782011fd03284d2 (diff) | |
| download | rygel-969261619fa1a8916e7ae70dac78c1e0513ae2a8.tar.gz | |
core: Add UPnP BasicManagement service support
Add BasicManagement:2 service that contains a bunch of
tools (Ping, NSLookup and Traceroute to start with). Service is
useful for DLNA Diagnostics, and can be enabled on a
plugin-by-plugin basis.
See doc/README.BasicManagement for details.
Commit was partly authored by Christophe Guiraud
<christophe.guiraud@intel.com>.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707831
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diff --git a/doc/README.BasicManagement b/doc/README.BasicManagement new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fc77e51e --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/README.BasicManagement @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +UPnP BasicManagement / DLNA +DIAGE+ +=================================== + +Rygel includes an optional BasicManagement:2[1] service implementation. +The implementation allows running diagnostic tools (Ping, NSLookup and +Traceroute) and querying their results remotely. Typically this service +would be running on a mediarenderer or mediaserver device that wants to +be compliant with the DLNA Diagnostics Guidelines[2]. + +The BasicManagement service is not started by default. To enable it for +a plugin add "diagnostics=true" in the configuration section for that +plugin in rygel.conf: + [Playbin] + diagnostics=true + +The service implementation is portable in the sense of compiling on any +Posix platform but it does use system tools (ping, nslookup, traceroute) +and parses their output. It has only been tested with standard linux +implementations but is likely to not produce good results on other OSes, +even busybox may require additional work. + +[1] http://upnp.org/specs/dm/UPnP-dm-BasicManagement-v2-Service.pdf +[2] https://members.dlna.org/apps/org/workgroup/mcac/download.php/28678/latest + (unfortunately only available to DLNA members) |