Using Discovery Library Adapters
The Discovery Library provides an integration mechanism for communicating and sharing information about discovered resources and relationships within the enterprise.
The Discovery Library consists of the following components:
- Discovery Library XML schema specification
- This schema is called the Identity Markup Language (IdML), which defines a set of operations for creating, updating, and deleting objects in the Common Data Model (CDM).
- Discovery Library Adapter (DLA)
- DLAs are application code written to extract discovered resource and relationship data, and then transformed to the IdML specification.
- Discovery Library books
- These are XML files formatted according to the IdML that contain discovery information, including the identity of resources and their relationships.
- Discovery Library File Store (DLFS)
- This is a repository for Discovery Library books.
The following sequence describes the Discovery Library information flow:
- A Management Software System (MSS) discovers resources and relationships in an enterprise environment.
- A DLA creates an IdML representation of the MSS application data (resources and relationships). The DLA can also request discovery updates, as required.
- The DLA copies the IdML book to the DLFS enabling readers, such as the bulk load program, to access the resource and relationship information.