Azure hardware type pattern-based discovery

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated December 31, 2025
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    • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds Azure hardware type configurations on your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources may require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

    Discovery uses the Azure - Hardware Type (LP) pattern to discover available Azure hardware type configurations (VM sizes) from your Azure account.

    When using the Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_compute_template] table to store the hardware types, you may notice an unusually large number of records. To avoid this issue, you can store the discovered hardware types in the Cloud Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_cloud_hardware_type] table. When enabled, Discovery launches the Azure - Cloud Hardware Type (LP) pattern to populate the Cloud Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_cloud_hardware_type] table. For more information, see Enable the Cloud Hardware Type class extension.

    Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

    Verify the Azure discovery prerequisites section in Microsoft Azure Cloud discovery using patterns.

    Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

    Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Azure hardware type patterns.

    Table 1. Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_compute_template] or Cloud Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_cloud_hardware_type]
    Field Description
    Name [name] The name of the hardware type configuration.

    For example: Standard_A1_v2 or Standard_D2s_v3.
    Object ID [object_id] The name of the hardware type configuration.

    For example: Standard_A1_v2 or Standard_D2s_v3.
    Cores [cores] The number of CPU cores available for this hardware type configuration.
    Memory MB [memory_mb] The amount of memory available for this hardware type configuration, in megabytes (MB).
    vCPUs [vcpus] The number of Virtual Central Processing Units (vCPUs) available for this hardware type configuration.
    Local Storage GB [local_storage_gb] The size of the temporary disk (resource disk) available for this hardware type configuration, in gigabytes (GB).
    Provider [provider] The cloud provider, which is AZURE.

    This field is only populated in Cloud Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_cloud_hardware_type] table.

    CI relationships

    The Azure hardware type patterns create these relationships to support Azure hardware type discovery.

    CI Relationship CI
    Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_compute_template] or Cloud Hardware Type [cmdb_ci_cloud_hardware_type] Hosted on::Hosts Azure Datacenter [cmdb_ci_azure_datacenter]