Azure Subscriptions Discovery For Management Group pattern-based discovery

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated December 31, 2025
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    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds Azure Subscription entities under Management Groups on your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources may require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

    Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

    Verify the Azure discovery prerequisites section in Microsoft Azure Cloud components discovery using patterns.

    Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

    Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Azure Subscriptions Discovery For Management Group pattern.

    Table 1. Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account]
    Field Description
    Account Id [account_id] Subscription name or account ID.
    • Subscription account: The Azure subscription name
    • Management account: The management group account ID
    Name [name] Name of the account.
    • Subscription account: The display name of the subscription
    • Management account: The service account name
    Discovery credentials [discovery_credentials] Azure credential from the Credentials [discovery_credentials] table.
    Datacenter URL [datacenter_url] The Azure management endpoint URL for the account.
    Datacenter Type [datacenter_type] The type of datacenter: Azure Datacenter [cmdb_ci_azure_datacenter].
    Parent account [parent_account] References the Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] table (Management account).
    Is management account [is_master_account] Indicates whether this is a management group account.
    • true: Management account
    • false: Subscription account
    Object ID [object_id] Subscription name or account ID.
    • Subscription account: The Azure subscription name
    • Management account: The management group account ID

    CI relationships

    The Azure Subscriptions Discovery For Management Group pattern creates these references to support Azure Subscriptions Discovery For Management Group discovery.

    CI Relationship CI
    Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] (Subscription account) References Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] (Management account)
    Key Value [cmdb_key_value] References Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] (Subscription account)

    Azure Tag discovery

    The Azure Subscriptions Discovery For Management Group pattern collects tags and populates them in the Key Value [cmdb_key_value] table.

    Table 2. Key Value [cmdb_key_value]
    Field Description
    Key [key] Tag name.
    Value [value] Tag value.
    Configuration item [configuration_item] References the Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] table (Subscription account).