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Scanning Large Ranges with Discovery

Is there any guidance on the maximum number of IP's to scan per schedule? In the past, the rule of thumb I was told by ServiceNow was not to scan anything larger than a /20 i.e. /19 and below. Does this still hold? Before the glide.discovery.max_rang...

saadit by Kilo Expert
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Resolved! Serial number shows as "default string"

I have a specific computer model "GIGABYTE GB-BSi7-6500". For this computer model, I am getting serial number "default string" for chassis, baseboard, system & bios type. For uuid serial number type, I am getting alphanumeric value. The issue is that...

nikhil_agr20 by Tera Contributor
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A handy Discovery credential affinity view

Greetings!We've created a database view that makes it very easy to see which credential Discovery uses to access each CI it finds. It has made Discovery troubleshooting, as well as credential management easier for me - so I figured I'd share it with ...

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DanLevin by Kilo Expert
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Resolved! List of Physical & Virtual Servers

Does ServiceNow provide a list of what they consider to be physical and virtual servers? The reason I ask is because I understand thats how Discovery is licensed and I want to see how many we have. 

mikeo_leary by ServiceNow Employee
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Reporting Guidelines, Best Practices, and Words of Warning

To supplement our reporting guide, clients have asked us to incorporate guidelines around best practices, worst practices (with impact statements), known issues, etc. Below is what we have come up with so far, so we'd like to put it out to the user c...

sbailey1 by Tera Contributor
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Measuring Initial Response time

I need a way to measure the initial response time of our incidents.  I would like for the initial response time to be when a technician assigns the incident to themselves.  What is the best practice for accomplishing this.  

Resolved! Alert Console.

Hi All, Having some issues with the Alert console with OTB settings in Kingston.The Alert console (not 'All Alerts') refreshes every 30 seconds and every time it refreshes its restoring the view of the console to a default view i cannot change or edi...

Jonny Lord by Giga Contributor
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Implementation of Discovery over an existing CMDB

Hello Experts, Our client has a CMDB already which is being populated from multiple sources - a homegrown external system (not discovery), manual updates and imports. The client says the current state of CMDB is very matured and a lot of data has bee...

pauladams by Tera Contributor
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discovery add oid

Are SNMP System Oids and other hardware classifications added during upgrades? Example: I'm adding some F5 Oids that are not in London, will they be rolled up (somehow) and added to other discovery users oids when they upgrade to Madrid (and will I g...

Todd36 by Mega Expert
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Alert suppression

How do you suppress alerts In ServiceNow  Based on RFC duration? RFC task duration? Ci maintenance window? any other references. the challenge we are facing is the RFC and Task duration may not reflect the actual outage duration.   

EssnZilla by Tera Contributor
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Resolved! Cost associated with the roles

Hi All, I am trying to create some reports or notifications on the License expiry, In general or if possible specific to roles. Can anyone please help me with such tables which gives the cost and expiry for roles. I can see there is a database view a...

Resolved! Alert management rules & subflows

Hey! I have an issue with my Alert Management Rule.  The context is that a customer wants to generate alerts (and incidents) using keywords from the subject and body of the mail. The alert generation is handled by an Inbound Action that creates said ...

Fares1 by Kilo Expert
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