Harsh Kumar1
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

ServiceNow's ITOM Discovery enables you to discover cloud services in AWS. Since the London release of the ServiceNow platform, our AWS Cloud Discovery offering has evolved. Servicenow discovery supports both metadata and deep discovery of AWS Cloud.

  • Metadata discovery is the discovery of the foundational resources and other details on the metadata.
  • Deep discovery is the discovery of OS-level details.

With that being said, here are the options for customers to implement ServiceNow discovery for AWS Cloud. 

Option 1: 

Cloud Discovery (metadata)-- Iaas/Paas/Faas/CaaS using Cross Assume Role 

CaaS (deep discovery) - Using Containerized MID for the deep discovery of EKS clusters and containers 

 

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Option 2: 

Cloud Discovery (metadata)-- Iaas/Paas/Faas/CaaS using Cross Assume Role

CaaS(deep discovery) - Auto Scheduler (NO Containerized MID) for the deep discovery of EKS clusters and containers 

 

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Option 3: 

Cloud Discovery (metadata)-- Iaas/Paas/Faas/CaaS using Cross Assume Role 

CaaS(deep discovery) - SG Connector (NO Containerized MID)

 

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Option 4:

SG Connector (meta data and deep discovery) - Iaas/Paas/Faas/CaaS and NO MID deployment

 

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Option 5:

Cloud Discovery (metadata)-- Iaas/Paas/Faas/CaaS using Cross Assume Role 

CaaS(deep discovery) - Credential Based Discovery (need MID deployment)

 

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Option 6: 

Cloud Discovery (meta data)-- Iaas/Paas/Faas/CaaS using cross assume role

CaaS(deep discovery) - Any option from 1-5

IaaS [EC2] (deep discovery) - Deploy ACC in every EC2 and MID in transit VPC

 

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Option 7: 

Event Driven Discovery using CloudWatch Events and Simple notification service 

 

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Summarizing the above options: 

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Other Useful links: 

AWS Cloud Discovery - docs.

Cross Assume Role Discovery - blog

Cross Assume Role Discovery - Video

Event Driven Discovery - docs

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