Need help Discover Laptop

[Sunny45]

Hello Team,

I have MID server (Windows Server 2016)  installed on my Home Network. I want to run discovery on 3 laptops (Windows 10, Windows 7) which are all on same Home Network connected with Ethernet cable. All laptops IP address are reachable from MID server when I ping.

Please advise me how can I achieve that? What kind of credentials I should create?

Thanks.

[Sunny45]

Thanks Janos,

I was able to run discovery successful by using Local Admin account on one of the Laptop (Windows 7 Enterprise version) 

Could you please give me some tips/guidance how do I create single domain account which will be sufficient to discover all the laptops in my Home Network? 

Please give me guidance or any link which has this information.

Thanks.

[shloke04]

Hi,

Did you had a chance to look at article below from ServiceNow Docs which talks on same topic you need:

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/rome-it-operations-management/page/product/discovery/reference/r-ActiveDirectory.html

Hope this helps. Please mark the answer as correct/helpful based on impact.

Regards,
Shloke

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You would need to create a Windows (Evaluation) Server, probably a virtual machine (on VirtualBox perhaps). You would need to install a domain (controller/DC) on that server. You would than join the laptops to that domain. Be very careful, do note down all authentication information for later use, cause if you at any point will loose authentication information, you will need to re-install all laptops. Once your experiment is done, make sure you remove all laptops from the domain before destroying the domain. Once you have the domain controller and computers have been joined to the domain, you need to create a domain user and a group policy to make that domain user local administrator on all computers. And than you can use that domain user when setting up the (a single) Windows Credential to discover any domain joined laptop.

[Sunny45]

Thanks Janos. That's perfect. 

Thanks for all your tips/guidance. 

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You're most welcome!