Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns uses the Alibaba - Availability Zone (LP) pattern to discover availability zones during horizontal discovery. Discovering some of these resources requires updating the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

Verify the Alibaba Cloud discovery prerequisites section in Alibaba Cloud discovery using patterns.

Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Alibaba - Availability Zone (LP) pattern.

Table 1. Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]
Field Description
Name [name] Zone ID of the Alibaba Cloud availability zone.
Object ID [object_id] Zone ID of the Alibaba Cloud availability zone.
Install Status [install_status] Install status of the availability zone. Default value is Installed.

CI relationships

Discovery creates these relationships to support the availability zone discovery.

CI Relationship CI
Alibaba Datacenter [cmdb_ci_alibaba_datacenter] Contains::Contained by Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]