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22 /*
23  * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
24  * Use is subject to license terms.
25  *
26  *ident	"%Z%%M%	%I%	%E% SMI"
27  *
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29 
30 package com.sun.solaris.domain.pools;
31 
32 import java.util.Set;
33 
34 import com.sun.solaris.service.pools.Configuration;
35 import com.sun.solaris.service.pools.Element;
36 import com.sun.solaris.service.pools.PoolsException;
37 
38 /**
39  * This interface specifies the contract between poold and the poold
40  * allocation algorithms.
41  */
42 
43 public interface Solver {
44 	/**
45 	 * Initialize the solver.
46 	 *
47 	 * @param conf The configuration to be manipulated.
48 	 * @throws PoolsException If the initialization fails.
49 	 */
50 	public void initialize(Configuration conf) throws PoolsException;
51 
52 	/**
53 	 * Evaluate whether a workload based reconfiguration is
54 	 * required.
55 	 *
56 	 * @param mon The monitor to be used during examination.
57 	 * @throws PoolsException If the examination fails.
58 	 * @throws StaleMonitorException If the monitor is stale.
59 	 */
60 	public boolean examine(Monitor mon) throws PoolsException,
61 	    StaleMonitorException;
62 
63 	/**
64 	 * Allocate resources. Return true if a change was made.
65 	 *
66 	 * @throws Exception If the solve fails.
67 	 */
68 	public boolean solve() throws Exception;
69 
70 	/**
71 	 * Return true if all examined resources are capable of
72 	 * providing statistically valid data.
73 	 *
74 	 * If any of the monitored resources have not accumulated
75 	 * enough data to be statistically significant, then this
76 	 * monitor is not ready to be used to obtain data for all
77 	 * resources. In this case, false is returned.
78 	 *
79 	 */
80 	public boolean isValid();
81 
82 	/**
83 	 * Return a reference to the monitor which this solver is
84 	 * using to provide statistics about the configuration which
85 	 * is to be solved.
86 	 */
87 	public Monitor getMonitor();
88 
89 	/**
90 	 * Return the set of objectives associated with the supplied
91 	 * element.
92 	 *
93 	 * @param elem Retrieve objectives for this element.
94 	 */
95 	public Set getObjectives(Element elem);
96 }
97