MANAGING ACCESS OF NETWORK SERVICES

摘要

Approaches are provided for managing scope of and access to network services. In one approach, a source device and a target device are each provisioned with a service connector that is configured to communicate with a service manager that executes on a device that is different than the source and target devices. Using its service connector, the source device is able to discover a network service hosted by the target device even though the source device and target device are in different subnets or networks. In another approach, a service manager limits which network services are visible to a source device even though the network services are hosted on target devices that are on the same subnet as the source device. In this approach, the source device uses a service connector to discover the service manager and receive a list of registered services hosted on one or more target devices.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for managing access to network services, the computer-implemented method comprising:
storing service data that identifies a plurality of services that includes a first service that is located in a first subset; storing one or more rules that are associated with the service data; after storing the service data and the one or more rules, receiving, from a source device in the first subnet, a request for available services; in response to receiving the request, identifying, based on at least one rule of the one or more rules, a subset of the plurality of services, wherein the subset does not include the first service; generating a response that includes a list of available services that identifies the subset of the plurality of services and not the first service; sending the response to the source device; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.