URL Discovery Insights dashboard
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Summary of URL Discovery Insights dashboard
The URL Discovery Insights dashboard in the Discovery Admin Workspace provides ServiceNow customers with detailed analytics and data on web domains accessed by managed Windows and macOS devices. It enables IT teams to monitor URL visits, categorize domain activity, and make data-driven decisions to enhance visibility and control over network usage.
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Access the dashboard via: Workspaces > Discovery Admin Workspace > Insights > URL Discovery Insights.
Prerequisites
- ServiceNow platform versions: Australia, Zurich, or YP6 or later
- Installed plugins and modules:
- Software Asset Management Professional plugin (com.snc.samp)
- Agent Client Collector for Visibility - Content (ACC-VC) v1.8.0 or later
- ITOM URL Discovery v1.1.0 or later
- Discovery Admin Workspace v1.14.0 or later
- Enable data collection by setting snaccviscontent.enablefullmonitoring property to True
- User roles required: discoveryadmin or admin
Key Features
- Data Visualizations: The dashboard extracts data from the Application Domain [snaccviscontentapplicationdomain] table and presents it in interactive visual formats for easy analysis.
- Reports include:
- All visited URLs: Total number of URLs visited across managed devices since a specified date (only visible if Broad Discovery is enabled).
- Top 5 URLs with the most visits: Bar chart showing the five most frequently visited URLs.
- Targeted URLs visited by category: Donut chart displaying visits distribution by URL category.
- Targeted URLs visited: Lists URLs configured for monitoring, allowing detailed inspection and filtering.
- Other URLs visited: Shows non-targeted URLs accessed on devices (available when Broad URL Discovery is enabled), with the option to add these URLs to the targeted discovery list for monitoring.
- Adding URLs to Targeted Discovery: Users can select URLs from the broad list and assign attributes such as:
- Internal or External domain designation
- Category
- Product association
- Publisher
- Application Service
- Note: Mapping a Software Asset Management (SAM) product to a URL requires the samuser role.
- Data refresh for visualizations can be manually triggered using the Refresh option.
- Daily aggregation jobs update domain-level metrics; thus, very recent activity might not be immediately visible.
Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers
- Gain actionable insights into web domain usage on managed devices to support security, compliance, and asset management efforts.
- Identify high-traffic URLs and categorize web activity to optimize monitoring and policy enforcement.
- Customize monitoring by adding relevant URLs to the targeted discovery list with detailed metadata, enhancing control over network resources.
- Leverage comprehensive visibility into both targeted and broad URL activity to make informed operational decisions.
The Discovery Admin Workspace URL Discovery Insights dashboard displays captured data and analytics for web domains accessed on managed Windows and macOS devices.
To access the dashboard, navigate to .
Prerequisites
- Verify that you have the required setup
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- Australia, Zurich, or YP6 or later version of the ServiceNow AI Platform
- Software Asset Management Professional plugin (com.snc.samp)
- Agent Client Collector for Visibility - Content (ACC-VC) v1.8.0 or later
- ITOM URL Discovery v1.1.0 or later
- Discovery Admin Workspace v1.14.0 or later
- Enable the data collection
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Role required: discovery_admin or admin
Set the sn_acc_vis_content.enable_full_monitoring property to True.
Required ServiceNow AI Platform roles
- discovery_admin
- admin
Key features
The URL Discovery insights dashboard enables you to make data-driven decisions through powerful visualizations. The data is extracted from the Application Domain [sn_acc_vis_content_application_domain] table.
Select the More options icon (), then select Refresh to refresh the data for each visualization in this section.
| Report title | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| All visited URLs | Data count | Displays the total number of URLs visited across managed devices since a given date. Note: This data count displays only when Broad discovery is enabled. |
| Top 5 URLs with the most visits | Bar chart | Displays the five URLs with the highest visit counts across managed devices since a given date. |
| Targeted URLs visited by category | Donut chart | Displays the distribution of targeted URL visits grouped by URL category since a given date. |
Targeted URLs visited
This section lists the targeted URLs visited across managed devices since a given date. Targeted URLs are those configured for monitoring in . For more information, see Discovery Admin Workspace Settings.
Select a URL from the list to view detailed information about it. Select the filter icon () to apply filters to the table.
Other URLs visited
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Internal or External | Indicates whether the domain is internal or external. The default value is External. |
| Category | The URL category to assign to the domain. |
| Product | The product associated with the domain. |
| Publisher | The publisher of the product associated with the domain. |
| Application Service | The application service associated with the domain. |
Select Save to add the URL to the Targeted URL discovery. The URL is then monitored and appears in the Targeted URLs visited tab.
Select the filter icon () to apply filters to the table.