MID Server Stores Discovery Data On Local Disk? Is Any Data "At Rest"?

[Tom Rausch]

Does the MID Server store Discovery data on the local disk? That is, is there ever any Discovery data "at rest" on the MID Server?

For example, I Discover one Windows device and determine the hostname and IP address. The data is in this format.

<discovery_data>

<hostname>MyServer</hostname>

<ip_address>192.168.0.1</ip_address>

</discovery_data>

Is the data in the <discovery_data> section ever stored locally on the MID Server?

Tom Rausch

[PavanBV · Accepted solution]

Hi @Tom Rausch  ,

The data you are seeing is basically the payload that is being pushed from your N/w to ServiceNow by the discovery. All the CI/Asset data will be stored in ServiceNow CMDB and nothing will be stored on the MID server.

MID server just act as a agent between your network & SN instance and enables the data movement through a secure channel called ECC queue.

Thanks

BV