ITOM & ACC discovery for databases

[Miguel Flores S]

Hello community, I want to know if ITOM discovery or ACC can discover and offer information about database instances such as tables, views, and other details. Or do they only discover database instances without details?

[Community Alums]

Hi @Miguel Flores S ,

GO through the Database Discovery :https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/washingtondc-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/conc...

Then Discovery with Agent Client Collector - Step by Step Configuration

[Miguel Flores S]

Thanks for the reply. We are currently successfully discovering or identifying the database instance running on each server.

But we want to see details of those instances, such as tables, views, capacity, jobs, etc.

Is it possible to obtain this detailed information with the discovery or with ACC?

[Daniel Oderbolz]

Hi @Miguel Flores S 
I agree with @Community Alums - start with the "regular" DB discovery. Personally, I do not think that ACC gives you an advantage. Of course you could use existing sensu plugins for databases such as the GitHub - sensu-plugins/sensu-plugins-postgres but these plugins come from the monitoring side and not from the discovery side.

Finally you could write your own plugins which begs the question of what you would gain from it.

What kinds of database systems do you want to discover?

What do you expect to gain from ACC in this context?

Best
Daniel

[Miguel Flores S]

Thanks for the reply. We are currently successfully discovering or identifying the database instance running on each server.

But we want to see details of those instances, such as tables, views, capacity, jobs, etc.

Is it possible to obtain this detailed information with the discovery or with ACC?

Or that is a possibility from monitoring not for discovery as you mention?

Regards