Add company name to CI's during or after the discovery

SmithD281019 · ‎11-12-2019

Morning,

I am looking for help in adding our customer's company names to each CI as it is being discovered. This is very important to how our alerting works.

I don't think the best practice is to have multiple Business Rules to run after each discovery, as it is not very dynamic and not very scalable. I don't particularly want to add or create a new pattern design for the same reason.

Is there a way to add the company name as a property or value to the customer's MID server so each CI picks it up from there?

Any help on the matter would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan

robertgeen · ‎11-12-2019

Dan,

So I actually just implemented this for a client I am working for. Here's how I did it:

- We had to add a reference field at the schedule level that links to the company table.

- We then had to add a pre-post script which modifies the payload and references the schedule that it was running as and adds the company to it.

- This will only work for patterns. For the old probes/sensors you will need to find a different mechanism to do it but honestly I think you only really care about hardware and possibly application CIs so you could add a company mapping from the hardware on the process classifiers as well.

I hope this helps you out!

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adilrathore · ‎11-12-2019

You can update the company name and address in the Locations table and then update the location within the discovery schedule used to discover CI's for that particular Company.

This would quickly update the location containing the company name to the CI.

Henrik Jutterst · ‎12-09-2022

Thanks! This did exactly what I was hoping for.

Both Company and Location was updated based on Location from Discovery Schedule.

Simple and effective solution 🙂

BozhidarNizamov · ‎08-29-2024

Strange, this does not work anymore. Would have been an easy way to set things up.

Henrik Jutterst · ‎08-30-2024

That's strange?

But if that's the case. Have a look at this post then. Because this can solve it. It's not the same solution, but with my post in this post you can set what ever fields you'd like for a Discovery Schedule. And that's even better I guess? 🙂

Discovery - Populate custom attribute based on discovery schedule