Horizontal Discovery log

[manishs]

I'm new at Servicenow and I'm facing issues understanding the meaning of horizontal discovery log, like if port point entry is open for SCCM and so.

[karmeng]

Hi Manish,

Discovery log provide general information about the discovery ie: when the discovery start, what it's classified, identified, explored etc. If you want to understand in detail what discovery is doing, ecc queue will give better idea in terms of what output send out and what input decrypt by sensor. They are in xml format.

You can check documentation:

The ECC queue for Discovery

Regards,

Kar Meng

[Tony Branton]

Hi Manish,

The Horizontal Discovery Log provides a log of the steps executed in a horizontal discovery pattern and output of each step.   Note that this log does not replace the traditional Discovery and ECC Queue logs - it's additional to these when a horizontal discovery pattern is used.

When a horizontal pattern is used in Discovery, the normal discovery phases (i.e. scanning, classification, identification, exploration) are still used so you'll see the Discovery log ECC queue being populated with messages as the Shazzam and port probes are run.   When the horizontal pattern is triggered in the identification (or exploration) phase, results are stored in the horizontal discovery log as each step in the pattern is executed.   When execution of the horizontal pattern finishes, messages are again written to the Discovery log as the Discovery job completes.

You can read more about Discovery Logs in the Product Documentation.

Hope this helps answer your question.