Exchange MailBox discovery

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • Discovery creates or updates a CMDB record when it detects a running instance of Exchange Mailbox.

    Note:
    For information on Probe to Pattern migration see the knowledge article KB0694477.

    Prerequisites

    The Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell module must be installed on the server that you want to discover.

    The service winRM must be running on the host machine. Run the following command in the Powershell window to verify: New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri "http://$hostname/PowerShell/" -Authentication Kerberos

    Pattern

    By default, Discovery uses the MailBox On Windows pattern to discover Exchange MailBox.

    Credentials

    Configure these credentials:
    Credential type Additional notes
    Applicative credentials The user must be able to run Powershell commands against the Exchange hosts.
    Use Exchange Mailbox as the CI type for the applicative credential.
    Important:
    Do not use the Exchange Mailbox server CI type.
    Windows credentials The OS user must be a domain user, not a local user for the server.

    Data collected

    The following data is collected on the Exchange Mailboxes [cmdb_ci_exchange_mailbox] table:

    Label Field Name
    Name name
    Version version
    Class sys_class_name
    Fully qualified domain name fqdn
    IP Address ip_address
    Installation directory install_directory
    Type type