What is the difference between Credential less Discovery and Credential Discovery?

Sathwik1
Tera Expert

‎11-05-2019 10:47 PM

What is the difference between Credential less Discovery and Credential Discovery?

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arielgritti
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‎11-05-2019 11:47 PM

Hello

The credential-less discovery uses NMAP to discover the CI.

With credential discovery you must create the credential for each CI connection type (WMI, ssh, snmp, etc).

 

Take a look to this doc: https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/newyork-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/concept/n... 

 

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Alexey7
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‎11-07-2019 07:25 AM

Credential-less Discovery gives some basic information based on Nmap output such as DNS name, MAC address, detecting apps running on a host, host's OS and version.

With Credential Discovery you can discover practically anything about a CI, of course, if you supply local admin (for Windows) / sudo (for Unix) credentials.

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Alexey

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Monali Patil
Kilo Guru

‎11-11-2019 02:56 AM

Hi Ram,

Credential less discovery:

If the instance fails to identify a configuration item (CI) because of authentication failure, Discovery or Service Mapping can run selected Network Mapper (Nmap) commands with a MID Server to collect some basic information about the CI without using credentials.

A MID Server administrator can install Nmap on individual MID Servers running on a Windows host. Those MID Servers can then discover some basic information about CIs in your network when normal authentication fails.
 
Credential discovery:
 
Uses credentials from 'discovery_credentials' table based on the credential type to do a deep discovery of the given IP range. This will be enabled automatically when the credential is created and tested.
 
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