Is it possible to detect Installed Software on a Virtual Machine with Ubuntu via Discovery and save discovered records to CMDB?

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Dominik15
Tera Contributor

‎02-25-2022 01:48 AM

I'd like to install software on a virtual machine using Ansible and register this software as records in CMDB. How can I do this?

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Sandeep132
Kilo Sage

‎02-28-2022 11:30 AM

Hi Dominik,

Installing Software using Ansible playbook should be easy. You can find an example here https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/software-packages-ansible

And using Software Discovery the software details will be stored in corresponding tables inside CMDB. More information on Software discovery can be found here https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/rome-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/concept/c_So...

Hope this helps.

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Patrick DeCarl1
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

‎02-25-2022 09:06 AM

Yes, OOTB discovery will pull back the installed software via OS disco scan. 

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Sandeep132
Kilo Sage

‎02-28-2022 11:30 AM

Hi Dominik,

Installing Software using Ansible playbook should be easy. You can find an example here https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/software-packages-ansible

And using Software Discovery the software details will be stored in corresponding tables inside CMDB. More information on Software discovery can be found here https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/rome-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/concept/c_So...

Hope this helps.