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I spoke this morning with a company that is deploying Discovery, and one of the topics of our conversation was this: how do we deal with a situation where the networking folks tightly restrict access ...
I spoke this morning with a company that is deploying Discovery, and one of the topics of our conversation was this: how do we deal with a situation where the networking folks tightly restrict access ...
When Discovery goes out and explores your network, most of the time it has no problem figuring out what's what. But sometimes it will find "things" out there that it cannot identify. What do you do th...
When Discovery explores your networks, one of the methods it uses is the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). When a device at an IP address responds to SNMP, the first thing Discovery has to do...
Some enterprises have their networks divided into broad, sparsely-populated IP ranges. One enterprise we know uses a /18 (like 10.21.0.0/18) network for each of their locations, large or small. A /18 ...
This is my first attempt at videos. The only thing I have done is checked with a few of my Service Desk techs to see if it made their ears bleed listening to me. I am still working on fixing the audio...
There's too much information!I've seen this reaction several times when people get their first view of what Discovery finds and puts in the CMDB — it's way more than they expected, and having all that...
The next release of our project includes many spiffy new features in Discovery, one of which is the discovery of manageable Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs). The screenshot at right shows what a ...
If you've been poking around in the Discovery application, you may have noticed an intriguing little box on the schedule form: the "Discovery Type". It gives you three choices: Basic, Advanced, and Ne...
So if you're into Twitter you will probably find this list of Service-now.com employees who tweet useful. If you have no idea what Twitter is, here is a definition (in 140 characters or less) Twitter ...
Service-now.com was graciously invited by Mark Storace, IT Service Management Professional Association founder and CEO, to provide the vendor spotlight for the ITSMP-a Q408 newsletter. We jumped at th...
You may have heard this little saying:"There's a right way, a wrong way, and a Microsoft way."That applies to security credentials as much as it does to other areas. Microsoft chose to go their own wa...
Couple of very cool conversations took place today regarding local user groups!I was on a call with the Minnesota Local User Group which has planned a half day event in mid December to host a lunch, c...
We're often asked setting up Discovery schedules. What are the "best practices" for them? Do we have some guidelines? Or even just some tips and hints?Why, yes we do!The starting point for a discussio...
Most of the time Discovery thinks of each IP address as representing a unique device, but there are times when this simple approach doesn't work. For example, consider the case of a workstation whose ...
Each morning I drive down out of the mountains of eastern San Diego County to the coastal plains (where the wooden spaceship is docked). This morning I was treated to a scene of sublime beauty — a nea...
One of the many kinds of devices that Discovery will find and explore are network printers. By "network printers" we mean those printers that connect directly to the network (rather than to a computer...
We're targeting our Global Text Search capability for the Winter 2009 release (in two months). Since no new feature just "pops up" from the aether, fully formed and complete, it's obviously a work in ...
MID servers are lightweight Java processes that run on servers in your enterprise. We call them "lightweight" because they require relatively little resources on whatever server you're running them on...
Buried within the Discovery application (at Discovery → IP Addresses) is a table that contains a lot of useful information. It's a place where Discovery remembers some things about past discoveries,...
What are these mysterious "messages" that you keep hearing about in Discovery? And what on earth is the "ECC Queue"?The ECC Queue is simply a database table, nothing more. Discovery uses rows in this ...