Professor
NeophyteTotally feel this. I’ve always assumed hdsId stood for something like "Host DataSource ID", since LogicMonitor used to refer to monitored devices as hosts. Even though the UI now uses the term “device,” the backend API has held on to some legacy terminology—probably for consistency or backward compatibility.
So while ddsId (device datasource ID) would definitely be more intuitive today, I guess hdsId is just a leftover from the early days of LogicMonitor. A little odd, but not without its historic charm.
Would love it if someone from LogicMonitor confirmed this officially, though—if nothing else, it’d help us sleep better at night knowing what the “h” really means
ProfessorNice. I was unaware of host being an older term for what became devices, and now I guess the most modern is resource. Host makes sense. I was thinking almost in terms of a local implementation of an abstraction or template, and I was mentally fishing around for a word that started with "h" that might fit. I should have realized it was something like host.
While you say host is just your best guess based on history, it fits so well that I'll probably roll with that in terms of how I think of it, even if LogicMonitor posts that its something more esoteric. :)
