1      Definition

An Item representing the description of the Items or Processes to be Discovered by a Discover Service for use by the Basic Discover Service specified by MMM-TEC and by other Discover Services identified by the Discovery Qualifier.

2      Functional Requirements

The Discovery Item is composed of a Discovery Request Item and Discovery Response Item.

The Discovery Request Item is used, e.g., discover:

  1. An Item with specific characteristics.
  2. A Process performing specific functions.

The Discovery Request Item may include the ID of one or more Items or Process the the Discover Service deems to comply with the Discovery Request Item.

3      Syntax

https://schemas.mpai.community/MMM4/V2.1/data/DiscoveryObject.json

4      Semantics

Label Description
Header Discovery Object Header
– Standard-DiscoveryObject The characters “MMM-DSO-V”
– Version Major version – 1 or 2 characters
– Dot-separator The character “.”
– Subversion Minor version – 1 or 2 characters
MInstanceID Identifier of M-Instance.
DiscoveryID Discovery as identified by its Qualifier.
DiscoveryData Data contained in the Discovery Item.
DiscoveryQualifier The Qualifier of Dat in the Discovery Item.
DescrMetadata Descriptive Metadata.