Change field that discovery updates for location?

[Conan_Lloyd]

For reasons I can't go into we need discovery to no longer update the location field but update a new field called Discovered Location u_discovered_location.   I can't find the script I need to update.   Can anyone help me out?

[Marcus Fly]

This should be in the Shazzam Sensor script.   If you scroll down there is a function called "updateLocation".

Hope this helps.

       updateLocation: function() {

               if (!this.schedule.location)

                       return;





               this.ciData.getData()['location'] = this.schedule.location;

       },

[guy_yedwab]

If you do modify the Shazzam sensor probe, I recommend copying it and marking the original as "active = false" so that you'll still get future updates to Shazzam.

(Apologies if I'm already telling y'all something you know.)

[Community Alums · Accepted solution]

If you don't want to modify the Shazzam probe, you can also put an "after" business rule on the 'discovery_device_history' table. It holds the CI in a reference field and you can dot-walk to the Discovery Schedule table. Of course that doesn't prevent the location form being written to the location field on the CI record, but I know a lot of clients have been hesitant to modify the OOB probes/sensors. You can set the location record to NULL and erase that value if you want though (or write another BR to reject any update to the location field).

conditions: !current.cmdb_ci.nil() && current.cmdb_ci.changs()

addLoc();



addLoc(){



var sysID = current.cmdb_ci;



var newLoc = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci_hardware');

newLoc.addQuery('sys_id',sysID);

newLoc.query();



if(newLoc.next()){

         //gs.log("Location name is: " + current.status.dscheduler.location);

         newLoc.u_discovered_location = current.status.dscheduler.location;

         //newLoc.location = NULL;

         newLoc.update();

}

[sunilsafare]

Hi prdelong,

Thanks for the info. Do we need to write a business rule on 'discovery_device_history' table if we want discovery to prevent updating particular field on the record for the specific class ?

Thanks!

Regards,

Sunil Safare