Discovery Process

The Discovery Agent is a special pre-configured inbound adapter.

The discovery process involves the following steps:

Discovery agent polls the central SAP instance, retrieves the list of application servers connected to the central Instance.
The Discovery Agent publishes the list as a message to the TIBCO environment.
The outbound adapter configurations pick up the discovery message.
The outbound adapter configurations register on the gateway hosts of discovered application servers.

Note: If the adapter and the Discovery Agent span different network subnets, use of Rendezvous Enterprise Daemon is required. You must obtain a separate license for the Rendezvous Enterprise Daemon that is appropriate for your usage.

The outbound adapter configuration automatically disconnects from application servers that have gone down and cleans up connections after all attempts to retry connecting to the application server are exhausted. The outbound adapter configuration does not create a new connection to a gateway host, if a connection is already connected to a gateway host.