Resources

Resources in general can be used to describe traditional IT components (e.g., servers, network devices, etc.), software components (e.g., platforms, databases, applications, etc.), operational and business data (e.g., accounts, users, etc.) and roles, which can be assigned to persons, that describe the authority to access capabilities.

Property	Type	Required	Description
id	cadf:Identifier	Yes	The identifier for the resource
typeURI	cadf:Path	Yes	The classification (i.e., type) of the resource using the CADF Resource Taxonomy
name	xs:string	No	The optional local name for the resource (not necessarily unique)
domain	xs:string	No	The optional name of the domain that qualifies the name of the resource
credential	cadf:Credential	No	The optional security credentials associated with the resource’s identity
addresses	cadf:Endpoint[]	No	The optional descriptive addresses (including URLs) of the resource
host	cadf:Host	No	The optional information about the (network) host of the resource
geolocation	cadf:Geolocation	Dependent	This optional property describes the geographic location of the resource using Geolocation data type. Required if not geolocationId
geolocationId	cadf:Identifier	Dependent	This optional property identifies a CADF Geolocation by reference. Required if not geolocation
attachments	cadf:Attachment[]	No	An optional array of extended or domain-specific information about the resource or its context

Serialisation

{
    "typeURI": "http://schemas.dmtf.org/cloud/audit/1.0/event",
    ...,
    "target": {
        "id": "myscheme://mydomain/resource/id/0001",
        "typeURI": "service/compute",
        "name": "server_0001",
        ...,
        "geolocation": {
            "city": "Austin",
            "state": "TX",
            "regionICANN": "US"
        }
    }
}