Azure Management Group Discovery

[Satya5]

Hi Folks,

Greetings.

we are on a Journey of Implementing Cloud discovery in our Organisation.

I need clarity on the below queries

1.WE have a couple of Azure  Management Groups which consists of 1000 of subscription, need advice on how to segregate and run discovery on this cloud sub-account will be much appreciated any automation can be used to track all account discovery status or please suggest the ways you have followed in your organization (We are not targeting ip based discovery at this moment).

2. We get a lead time of 24 hours in a week to run all our discoveries so we want to manage the discovery of all cloud resources in that time. server resources or of no concern we can build multiple mid server.

3.Is there a way to automatically update the changes in cloud data back to CMDB on-demand basis.

4. Any folks who have implemented the cloud discovery please provide your experiences, do's, do not's and lessons learned which will help us.

Thanks all for your support.

Regards

Satya

[Ram Devanathan1]

Hello,

Azure cloud (API-driven) discovery can be run through management groups. You can specify the management group ID in the discovery UI (where you would normally provide the subscription ID). when there is a large number of accounts you can increase your throughput by adding more mids - the discovery will run in parallel for multiple subscriptions. how long the discovery runs really is a factor of how many resources are in each subscription, your network speed, mid-sizing, and performance.

this will also determine how often you need to run scheduled discovery, or better you can use events (activity log alerts) from Azure. This will help you avoid having to repeatedly re-run scheduled discovery.

see details here - https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/quebec-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/concept/az...

Note - please be careful about events you send to ServiceNow - it is real-time processing, only change events are of interest, and sending more unwanted events can slow down the processing.

Also calling/asking for others' inputs - would help to know your experiences.

HTH

Ram

[Nilanjan1]

Any updates Ram. 

[Ram Devanathan1]

Hi Nilanjan, please click 'show all replies' and read through this thread fully.

Let me know if you need further information or answers.

[Nilanjan1]

Hello Ram, 

I am unable to run the discovery through the management group. Is is returning the following error. if I have a management group as "Development" what should be the value? Anyone has come across these issues.  

Regards

Nilanjan