What is the Discovery Status with Description "Discover CIs API"? This seems to be new to NY

[DuaneNMore]

SInce our Upgrade to NY I have started seeing Discovery Status with Description="Discover CIs API" with no Schedule. The Discovery Status is being created by people who don't have discovery roles and at best have cmdb_read and cmdb_query_builder roles (as well as others).

This thing runs a ServiceDiscoveryProbe against the target Endpoints. Now I discovered this because I had a couple of "@servername" Oracle Instances discovered by DiscoverySource=CredentiallessDiscovery which I was surprised by because we have mid.discovery.credentialless.enable=false

I thought it might be the "Discover Now" UI Action but that has a constraint of gs.hasRole('discovery_admin') and these people don't have that or admin.

[robertgeen · Accepted solution]

Duane I don't think this is 100% new in New York but maybe it got turned on but check Change Management. There was an option in there where when a change finished it would auto trigger a discovery of that CI. I have a feeling it's going to be something like that that is causing it. Hope this helps.

[DuaneNMore]

That is exactly it. I called one of the people who "ran" the discovery and asked him what he was doing at the time; he said closing (actually changing from Implement to Review"). I then rooted around in the Business Rules and found it; Curiously, I went and looked at the properties that might control this and they haven't changed in forever so I am guessing that there is some other behavior or attribute that wasn't present before that is making it happen.

[robertgeen]

Yeah that's my suspicion I know this was released a few versions ago so it's not a new thing in New York. Either way now you know how to control it. Happy I was able to lead you to the right spot.

[robertgeen]

By the way if you have your answer please mark a post as answered. Thanks m8!