-L&B Harvester gathers information about jobs from L&B servers using efficient L&B notification mechanism. It manages notifications and keeps them in a persistent storage (file or database table) to reuse later on next launch. It takes care about refreshing notifications and queries L&B servers back when some notification expires.
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-The tool was initially written for Real Time Monitor (project at Imperial College in London), later was extended by MSG publish messaging mechanism for WLCG.
+L&B Harvester gathers job info from L&B servers using efficient L&B notifications. It manages notifications and keeps track of them for reuse on next launch. It takes care of refreshing notifications and querying L&B back once a notification expires.
-Skeleton of multi-process network server.
-Implements a server listening on several ports, incoming requests are passed
-to slave processes, client connections are kept on specific slaves unless
-there is higher input load etc.
-The library provides callback handles on connection initialization, incoming
-request handling, etc.
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+Multi-process network server.
+A server listening on multiple ports, passing inbound requests to slaves and maintaining connections to specific slaves if possible. The library provides callback handles on connection init, incoming request, etc.