Difference between GCP Cloud Discovery vs GCP Assest Inventory Discovery

Shraddha Dube
Tera Contributor

‎07-12-2024 01:37 AM

Hi all,

 

What is the difference between GCP cloud Discovery vs GCP asset inventory discovery?

What pre-requisites needed for GCP asset inventory discovery like which credential, different service account or same as like service account uses for GCP cloud discovery and what type of data get collected via GCP asset inventory discovery?

 

In doc https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/washingtondc-it-operations-management/page/product/service-mappin... , about pre-requisites not mentioned how to configure it unlike GCP cloud discovery

 

Can someone help us here about get to know this please

Thanks in advance!!

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PavanBV
Giga Guru

‎07-13-2024 09:13 PM

Hi @Shraddha Dube ,
What is the difference between GCP cloud Discovery vs GCP asset inventory discovery? --> GCP Cloud discovery focuses on discovering all the CIs that are present in a GCP project. This method of discovery mainly uses API calls to get the information and populate the CMDB. Where as, the GCP asset inventory focuses on discovering the devices that are supported by the horizontal discovery (like server's, load balancers, etc.). The Asset discovery uses credentials(SNMP,WMI, SSH etc. ) to fetch the information (this is very similar to how you implement the horizontal discovery)

 

What pre-requisites are needed for GCP asset inventory discovery, like which credential, different service account or the same as the service account used for GCP cloud discovery, and what type of data get collected via GCP asset inventory discovery? -->The pre-requisites will be same as the horizontal discovery pre-requisites(Mid Server, Credentials(WMI,SSH,SNMP, Firewall ports). The GCP service account is used just for the  cloud Discovery, where as the device specific credentials are needed for the GCP asset discovery.

Let me know if you still have any confusion. 

 

Thanks

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