Discovery Dashboard

The Discovery Dashboard is a central place for Discovery users to monitor ongoing Discovery operations. The dashboard contains reports that query the database and display the results.

Dashboards are the home pages for products on the instance. The Discovery Dashboard provides summary information about your Discovery status, devices, applications, and timeline. It also displays Discovery errors and suggested solutions.

Hinweis:

All the data on the dashboard is domain separated, and shows only data collected from the domain specified in the MID Server user account for the Discovery schedule used.

To display the Discovery Dashboard, navigate to Discovery > Dashboard.

Features of the Discovery dashboard

The Discovery Dashboard displays:

• The current progress (status) of the actively running Discovery schedules.
• Newly discovered devices and applications, by time discovered.
• Existing devices and applications not updated by Discovery.
• Errors that occurred during a Discovery schedule that has run.
• Credentials that were either not required or unused by a Discovery schedule.

Adding Discovery reports to the dashboard

Starting with the Madrid release, gauges are no longer supported in dashboards and have been replaced with widgets. You can continue using Discovery gauges on existing dashboards. However, you can’t add old Discovery gauges to your dashboards. If you need some reporting capability not offered in the current dashboard, you must create your own reports using widgets.

Discovery Dashboard components

You can customize the reports on the dashboard to display statistics important to your environment.

Active Discovery Status report

The Active Discovery Status report displays the progress of an actively running Discovery. The information displayed is pulled from the Discovery Status module. The Progress field of the status record specifies the percent complete of the Discovery schedule. The percent complete is calculated based on previous runs of the same Discovery schedule. The progress field is empty in the following cases:

• When you use DiscoverNow
• When you use Discovery from a configuration item (CI).
• During the first run of a Discovery schedule.

Abbildung : 1. Active Discovery Status report

Newly Discovered Devices report

The Newly Discovered Devices report displays the count of the devices that the Discovery application has identified in the last seven days, grouped by the class of the device.

Abbildung : 2. Newly Discovered Devices report

Total Discovered Devices report

The Total Discovered Devices report displays the total count of the devices that the Discovery application has identified in the last 30 days, grouped by the class of the device.

Abbildung : 3. Total Discovered Devices report

Unrefreshed Devices report

The Unrefreshed Devices report displays devices that were discovered up to a year ago, but haven’t been identified in the last 30 days, grouped by the class of the device.

Abbildung : 4. Unrefreshed Devices report

Newly Discovered Applications report

The New Applications Discovered report displays the count of new applications that the Discovery application has identified in the last seven days, grouped by the class of the application.

Abbildung : 5. Newly Discovered Applications report

Total Discovered Applications report

The Total Discovered Applications report displays the total count of the applications that the Discovery application has identified in the last 30 days, grouped by the class of the application.

Abbildung : 6. Total Discovered Applications report

Unrefreshed Applications report

The Unrefreshed Applications report displays applications that were discovered up to a year ago, but haven’t been identified in the last 30 days, grouped by the class of the application.

Abbildung : 7. Unrefreshed Applications report

Active Discovery Errors report

The Active Discovery Errors report lists the errors that are generated by each active Discovery. The errors for a specific Discovery are overwritten when that Discovery runs again. This report displays the following data:

Tabelle : 1. Active Discovery Errors report data

Column	Description
Created	Timestamp of the error message.
Short message	Contents of the error message generated during the Discovery run.
Help	Link to a suggestion on how to fix the error. In some cases, the link is specific to the error. In other cases, the link points to a general page that has the solution to a collection of common errors.
IP	IP address of the asset on which the error was detected.
Discovery status	Discovery status number.

Abbildung : 8. Active Discovery Errors report

Unused Credentials report

The Unused Credentials report lists the credentials that aren’t being used by the Discovery or Orchestration applications at the current time.

Hinweis:

This may include credentials for a Discovery that has been scheduled but not run for the first time.

Abbildung : 9. Unused Credentials report