Alibaba Cloud availability zone pattern-based discovery

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated October 22, 2025
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    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns uses the Alibaba - Availability Zone (LP) pattern to discover availability zones during horizontal discovery. 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 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]