extend discovery to query ldap for server attributes
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‎12-07-2022 04:53 PM
I need to extend our discovery process to include a call out to our enterprise ldap server to retrieve various elements specific to the server (owner, description, lifecycle, even the name of the app/service they belong to). Trying to create a discovery pattern extension using the "ldap query" call but there is nowhere on the form to provide the ldap credentials (a simple username/pass combo for a readonly account in my case). None of the standard "credential types" seem to apply?
Where/how do I provide the (readonly) ldap username+password credentials?
More importantly I suppose- is there a better/easier way to link all our servers to a "lookup" function (linux to LDAP and Windows to AD) where we grab those kind of attributes as they're discovered?
*Note in my case a host-based (command line) ldapsearch command isn't viable as some servers (like in the DMZ) can't actually reach the authoritative ldap servers with all the configuration data on them.

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‎12-14-2022 07:04 AM
Sometimes the functionality of ServiceNow Pattern Operations are quite limited. I can recommend to add this requirement for the LDAP query on the Idea Portal of ServiceNow. If you share the link, I will upvote it.