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

Dominik15
Tera Contributor

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

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

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

Sandeep132
Kilo Sage

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.