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Where on earth ServiceNow provides Incremental scan in Discovery?

Suggy
Giga Sage

In ask the experts video, it is mentioned as - "unlike a full scans which can which scan every device incremental scans focuses only on the changes since the last discovery"

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Source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulwFn30wMrw at 20th min. Looks like a misleading one or the content is not properly articulated. 

 

 

Where on earth is that Incremental scan hidden 🙂

 

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@Vijaya_Mnpram  thanks for taking time and replying. But SG connector is a pull based. Data gets pulled via API (its not scan based)

But the video talks about 'SCAN' 🙂

AartiA
Tera Contributor

OOTB ServiceNow Discovery does not use an incremental scan approach to discover CIs. Instead, each time Discovery runs, it scans the entire specified IP range.

DavidC483034023
Tera Contributor

There's a reference on the slide to event-based Cloud Discovery, which is probably what they were referring to.  Event-based discovery can be considered "incremental" since it only discovers changes to the cloud environment, as opposed to a whole scan.  It doesn't provide quite the level of detail that a full scan does, but it should give enough information about a CI until the discovery schedule executes.