Discovery Licensing

[KB15]

I'd like to know if someone can explain how discovery licensing works. What number does the licensing number count towards? I'm unclear on what it actually applies to and whether or not we're under or over. This is not regarding software license tracking.

[glennpinto · Accepted solution]

I asked one of our seasoned PS folks Doug Schulze and he responeded:

cmdb_ci_hardware

Discovery Source = Servicenow

Most recent discovery = within the last year (or contractual year)

Hope this helps.

[KB15]

OK. I'll have to reconfirm now. We're either way under licensed or within the range. Thanks for following up Glenn!

[KB15]

I was able to reconfirm that I should be using the hardware table instead for more accuracy. Seems like a lot of VMWare resources show up and, perhaps, should not count towards our licenses (ie. datastores, networks, virtual machine instances?) Not sure why he suggested that I use the cmdb_ci table in the first place.

[KB15]

I have a follow up question:

I've been tasked to remove CMDB from our instance as they're looking to cut costs. I would obviously need to remove schedules and MID servers but in order to effectively not use CMDB, would I simply need to remove any CIs that were found by ServiceNow?

[bradley_owen]

NOTE - We recently changed the timeline to 90 days - so if a CI was "discovered" (created or updated) by Discovery in the past 90 days, it is counted as a license for Discovery.