This section describes the Tideway Foundation Inferred Nodes. Inferred information is the type of information that is likely to be of most interest to most users and is inferred from other information using rules in the Reasoning Engine.

• Host Node describes the node kind that is used to model hosts on a network.
• Host Container Node describes the node kind that is used to represent a physical container for a number of logical hosts that is not in itself a kind of host.
• Software Instance Node describes the node kind that is used to represent a running instance of discovered software.
• Business Application Instance Node describes the node kind used to represent an instance of a known business application.
• Cluster Node describes the node kind used to represent a group of hosts collaborating to form a cluster.
• File Node describes the node kind used to represent a tracked configuration file on a host.
• File System Node describes the node kind used to represent a file system mounted on a host.
• Package Node describes the node kind used to represent a discovered package in your network environment.
• Patch Node describes the node kind used to represent a discovered patch in your network environment.
• Fiber Channel Nodes describes the node kinds that are used to model connections to a SAN.
• Network Interface Node describes the node kind that is used to model the network interfaces of IP devices.
• Switch Nodes describes the node kinds that are used to represent switches and their port interfaces.
• Subnet Node describes the node kind used to represent an IP subnet on which IP addresses have been scanned, or an imported IP subnet.
• Detail Node describes the node used to more deeply model the details of other node kinds, particularly Software Instances.
• Database Detail Node describes the node used to more deeply model databases and their tables.
• Generic Element Node describes the node kind used for rapid prototyping of patterns where the existing taxonomy does not already contain the required node kind.