Devicefrom
Devicefrom is a metadata field used in device description and provisioning systems to record the source or origin of a device or of its data. It is typically used to indicate the parent device, the original unit from which a clone, image, or migration was derived, or the component that supplied the device’s data stream. The term is not tied to a single standardized specification and appears in various formalisms as a descriptive property rather than a protocol requirement.
In device trees, asset management databases, and inventory systems, devicefrom helps with traceability and provenance. The
Examples include provisioning workflows where a deployed device is created from a base image; the resulting
Security and governance considerations: exposing devicefrom values can reveal infrastructure topology; access should be controlled. In
See also: provenance, device tree, data lineage, asset management.