Change field that discovery updates for location?

Conan_Lloyd · ‎01-12-2014

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?

Community Alums · ‎01-15-2014

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();


}

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Community Alums · ‎09-22-2014

I wouldn't, but it all depends on what field you are trying to prevent from being updated. That's something that is likely bettered handled at the probe/sensor level.

Conan_Lloyd · ‎02-10-2014

This worked perfectly, thank you!!

sunilsafare · ‎09-22-2014

ok Thanks for the info prdelong.