Why need Discovery?

Discovery finds computers, servers, printers, various IP-enabled devices, and the applications that run on them. It can then update the CIs in your CMDB with the data it collects.

There are two types of discovery:

Horizontal discovery:

Horizontal discovery is a technique that Discovery uses to scan your network, find computers and devices, and then populate the CMDB with the CIs it finds

Top-down discovery:

Top-down discovery is a technique that Service Mapping uses to find and maps CIs that are part of business services, such as an email service.

Discovery uses these components to find CIs:

• Probes and sensors:
• Patterns: