General

The General settings control how Discovery visualizations are displayed in the workspace.

Dashboard time scale

Enables you to see the health of your schedules over your preferred time span.

Use the Time scale drop-down list to choose between 7, 14, and 30-day time periods. The default time period is 7 days. After you configure it, all relevant data visualizations across the Home, Schedules, and Diagnostics pages update to measure over this time period.

Important:

After these settings are saved, you must refresh your browser to update the data visualizations with the new time scale.

Anomaly detection

The Anomaly Detection settings control how Discovery identifies and surfaces irregular schedule behavior within the Discovery Admin Workspace.

Anomaly detection

Identifies unusual behavior, like failed runs and significant deviations from the thresholds for high error counts, longer discovery status duration, and fewer discovered configuration items (CIs) or cloud resources.

Anomalies are categorized into the following severity levels:

• Critical: Schedules that have failed to run
• Major: Schedules that have a low CI discovery rate
• Minor: Schedules that have a long run time or a high error count

The Enable anomaly detection toggle enables you to turn the feature on and off. This feature is on by default.

Warning:

Turning off this feature significantly impacts the Discovery experience across multiple pages, charts, and tables.

Detection method

Identifies anomalies in Discovery schedules with the following approaches:

• ML-based: Uses machine learning (ML) algorithms to analyze historical schedule data, recognize complex patterns, and detect anomalies without predefined rules.
• Stats-based: Relies on traditional mathematical techniques, such as calculating standard deviations to identify outliers based on fixed numerical thresholds.

Select the Detection method drop-down list to choose an approach. The ML-based approach is the default detection method.

You can also adjust the sensitivity of anomaly detection. Lower sensitivity reports more anomalies, which might lead to more false positives, which means that normal scans are flagged as anomalies. Higher sensitivity reports fewer anomalies, which might result in more false negatives, which means that actual anomalies might not be detected.

Use the Sensitivity drop-down list to choose your preferred detection sensitivity. Choices include Lowest, Low, High, Highest. By default, anomaly detection is set to Low sensitivity.

Adjust thresholds

Adjusting thresholds helps prevent false positives, making sure that normal scans aren't mistakenly flagged as anomalies. When the anomaly detection method flags a Discovery status as an anomaly, the status metrics are analyzed for deviations from the average measurements based on the specified thresholds.

Scans are marked as anomalous when the run time, error count, or CI measurements deviate from the average by a specified threshold. The default threshold is 20%, but you can change the number that defines this threshold in the relevant text box. Selecting Reset reverts the threshold back to the default 20%.

IP Address Management (IPAM)

The IPAM settings manage how Discovery integrates with your IPAM sources, controlling schedule creation and connection behavior within the workspace. For more information, see IPAM Discovery integration.

Auto-create Discovery schedules

Automatically create and manage Discovery schedules based on your IPv6 network infrastructure data stored in IPAM.

After you install and configure the connectors through SGC Central, use the toggle to enable auto-created schedules. When enabled, Discovery creates schedules from incoming IPAM data and keeps them updated based on your auto‑creation criteria and IP data refresh settings. Schedules created automatically by IPAM are inactive by default. To activate a schedule created by IPAM, see Activate auto-created Discovery schedules.

Use the Auto-creation criteria setting to define how Discovery organizes IPs from your IPAM connections into new Discovery schedules. Discovery evaluates the key that you provide, retrieves the corresponding value from your IPAM data by looking it up in the Key Values [cmdb_key_value] table, where it searches only subnet records. IPs that share values are assigned to the same schedule, enabling the schedule structure to follow meaningful attributes such as location or environment.

Note:

If you don't want to provide a key, you can enter a single space in the Tag key field.

Use the data refresh settings to keep auto-created schedules aligned with the latest IPAM information. Discovery checks for new, updated, or removed IPs during each refresh and updates schedule mappings accordingly. This helps keep schedules accurate as your network changes.

IPAM connectors and connections

Provides a centralized view of your installed IPAM connectors and connections, along with access to their configuration details and drafts.

The Installed connections tab displays the details of your existing IPAM connections. Selecting a connection from this list opens the connection record, where you can view information such as connection properties, status, and data sources.

The Installed connectors tab shows the IPAM connectors that are installed on your instance. Selecting a connector from this list opens its connector record, where you can review its configuration and confirm that it's ready to send imported IP data to Discovery.

The Drafts connections tab lists any IPAM connections that were created but not fully configured. Select Resume setup next to the draft connection to complete the required settings before it is set to active.

IP data from IPAM connections

Enables you to view the IP address information imported from your IPAM solutions and understand how that data is organized for Discovery. This includes lists that show the IPs retrieved through your IPAM connections and how those IPs are mapped to auto-created schedules.

Select the IP schedule mapping link to access the IPAM Data page, which displays a list of the IPv6 addresses mapped to auto-created schedules.

Note:

This link displays only when auto-created schedules are enabled.

Select the Imported IPs link to access the IPAM Data page, displaying a list of IP data imported from your IPAM solutions through SGC connections. To avoid data corruption, don't edit or add IP data to the Imported IPs list.

To synchronize your IP data immediately instead of waiting for the next refresh time, select Refresh IP data.

Discovery notifications

URL discovery

The URL Discovery settings control how Agent Client Collector for Visibility (ACC-VC) collects web usage data from managed Windows and macOS devices. You can enable broad URL monitoring and manage targeted URLs to monitor from this page.