To discover the devices and applications, the pattern designer creates a sequence of commands that are mostly preconfigured and can be customized. Each discovery pattern serves to discover only one CI type, but the discovery can use more than one pattern to discover the same CI type.
Let's see how to create an empty pattern and configure important settings:
- Search for
Discovery Patterns
from the application navigator, which will bring up all the existing patterns configured:
- Clicking on
New
opens up a form to create a new pattern. The settings or configurations available are:Name
: Name of the patternCI type
: Select CI type for this pattern to discover, as mentioned earlier you can have one pattern for a CI typePattern type
: ChooseService Mapping
for service mapping patterns, selectDiscovery Host
to discover a host, and selectDiscovery Application
to discover an application running on a host
- Click
Submit
to create the new pattern using basic options, advance attributes...