discovery

  1. [Legal]  Process by which each party obtains information held by another party or non-party concerning a matter. [ISO/IEC 27050-1]
    Discovery is applicable more broadly than to parties in adversarial disputes. Discovery is also the disclosure of hardcopy documents, Electronically Stored Information and tangible objects by an adverse party. In some jurisdictions the term disclosure is used interchangeably with discovery.
  2. [General] The process of finding accessible devices, interfaces, and services.
  3. [Storage System] The process of finding devices attached to a storage infrastructure.
  4. [Network] The process of finding network interfaces in a networking infrastructure.
  5. [Services] The process of finding service interfaces.

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