Naming conventions
Data stored in the BMC Discovery datastore should follow these naming conventions:
Entity | Convention | Comments / Exceptions |
|---|---|---|
Node kinds | MixedCase starting with a capital letter. Node kinds should always be English nouns. | Unless the node kind corresponds to something that looks wrong with an initial capital letter. For example, vSphereIntegrationResult |
Relationship Kinds | MixedCase starting with a capital letter. Relationship kinds should always be English nouns. | It is important to use nouns for relationship kinds so that they make sense in both directions. For example, if you used "Contains" as a relationship kind, it would only read correctly in one direction, whereas "Containment" makes sense in both directions. |
Roles | MixedCase starting with a capital letter. English nouns. | |
Attribute names | lower_case_with_underscores | Incoming raw data that has associated attribute names should match the incoming names, even if they do not meet this convention |
"Hidden" attributes | __lower_case prefixed with two underscores | These are not shown in UIs by default. For example, __all_ip_addrs is used on Host nodes so that searching for an IP address finds a Host, even though they are primarily stored on IPAddress nodes. |