Alibaba Cloud service account pattern-based discovery

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated October 22, 2025
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    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns uses the Alibaba - Service Account Validation pattern to discover service accounts 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 - Service Account Validation pattern.

    Table 1. Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account]
    Field Description
    Name [name] Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) of the current requester.
    Object ID [object_id] The ID of the Alibaba Cloud account to which the current requester belongs.
    Datacenter Type [datacenter_type] Type of the datacenter where the account is hosted: Alibaba Datacenter [cmdb_ci_alibaba_datacenter].
    Account Id [account_id] The ID of the Alibaba Cloud account to which the current requester belongs.
    Discovery credentials [discovery_credentials] Alibaba Cloud API credentials.
    Datacenter URL [datacenter_url] Datacenter URL.
    Example URLs:
    • For GovCloud: https://ecs.aliyun-inc.com
    • For commercial cloud: htpps://ecs.aliyuncs.com

    CI relationships

    Discovery creates this reference to support the Alibaba Cloud service account discovery.

    CI Relationship CI
    Key Value [cmdb_key_value] References Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account]

    Tag discovery

    The Alibaba - Service Account Validation 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 key.
    Value [value] Tag value.
    Configuration item [configuration_item] References the Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] table.