The Pattern Language TPL

The Pattern Language, TPL, is used to describe applications, products, and other real-world entities that have been modeled in BMC Discovery. The core purpose of TPL is to make it easy to describe the most common structures to be modeled while remaining powerful enough to describe the vast majority of modeling situations.

The syntax and semantics of the pattern language are described in this reference guide.

If you are new to TPL, start with Pattern Overview and understand the TPL recommendations. You can also see the following webinar video (1:05:03), Discovery Patterns—TPL for Beginners:

  https://youtu.be/cU0oUdaKGYk

• What's new in TPL
• TPL recommendations
• TPL file structure
• Import
• Obsoletes
• Metadata
• Pattern Overview
• Pattern Configuration
• Static Tables
• Enumerations
• Identify
• Definitions
• Node names types and keys
• Syncmapping block
• TPL Keywords
• TPL Grammar
• String Escape Characters
• Using TPL to enrich discovered data
• Displaying custom attributes
• VMware ESX and ESXi discovery using discovery.vSphere functions