Discovery probes and sensors perform key tasks of data gathering and processing of the data that was gathered by discovery. Probe and sensor activities are controlled by the ECC queue. A job monitors the ECC queue, which looks for the ECC queue output
and the ready
state:
The output ECC messages are taken by the MID Server and processed, MID Server runs the necessary probes and returns the probe results to the ECC queue. The results from the probe are put back to the ECC queue as input entries. A business rule is fired on inserting data on to the ECC queue as input. The sensor processes the data that is required, which updates the CMDB.
Probes are responsible for collecting the information that is launched by the MID Server. A probe might be configured to get specific attribute information such as a configuration item name or a server IP address. An exploration probes return more specific information about the IP addresses.