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Documenation on NDL for Discovery Patterns?

Aoife Lucas
Giga Expert

Is there any documentation on the Neebula Discovery Language?   I have been unable to find any thus far, it would be nice, just like any other "programming" language to have a guide that shows all the available "methods" and "parameters".   I use those terms loosely as I am unsure what NDL calls them.

Thanks,

Marshall

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Alright. Thanks.

Aoife Lucas
Giga Expert

So, I was able to open the JAR file and get the .g (grammar) file and read the documentation on the ANTLR grammar to learn to read the grammar.  It is most enlightening and helps to understand patterns better.  However, the pattern builder works well and leads you through most of it without a need to write NDL directly.  I'm an old school coder so it really helps me to see and understand it by looking at the grammar.

VijayKan
Tera Contributor

I've been searching for documentation on NDL if any.  Apparently, there is still none published by ServiceNow.

The following page, 
https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/it-operations-management/discovery-and-service-mapping-patterns/t_...

refers to a KB
https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1698521, and it has a PDF attachment describing more in detail of creating or customizing patterns.

It is still obscure to understand, why relevant information is not maintained on the main documentation portal for easier reference.