DISCOVERY WITHOUT CREATING A USER ON LINUX MACHINE

[Muhammad_Faisal]

Is it possible , can we run a discovery  on Linux System without creating a user on a Linux machine? If someone knows please help me.

[doug_schulze]

You can use the agent client collector, preferred in your use case, or credential-less discovery in a dev environment.

[Ram Devanathan1]

to connect to a linux machine requires identity, and identity is a user typically.

even if acc is installed, you will need a user.

so user is needed. now whether to create a new one or not is a choice you would want to take - if you can't create a new one, use an existing one - but you may have to adjust the permissions of existing user.

however, i am not sure this is the right question - if it is about credentials, and saving the credentials to servicenow, then acc is better as it can work without storing the linux os creds to servicenow. also with mid you can also user cyberark, hashi vault, azure key vault etc to store creds in secure way  and connect via mid using external creds - so it does not need to be on servicenow side.

for discovery you could also go servicegraph route if the linux vm is in cloud.

so @Muhammad_Faisal  what's the question really? 🙂