Direct JDBC Probe

Release version: Zurich

Updated July 31, 2025

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A direct JDBC probe specifies all the parameters necessary in the outbound ECC Queue XML payload.

It is a standalone probe that is decoupled from a JDBC Data Source and does not insert into an import set. The required field in the ECC Queue record for a direct JDBC probe is Topic and it must equal JDBCProbe. The Source field is reserved for the sys_id of the data source record in the case of a JDBC data source.

Note:

If you have ServiceNow Discovery enabled on your platform, add the skip_sensor parameter to the probe to avoid the discovery sensors from processing the probe and resulting in a "No sensors defined" error.

XML Structure

A direct JDBC probe has the following XML payload structure

<parameters><parameter name = "skip_sensor" value = "true" /><parameter name = "parameter_name" value = "parameter_value" />
  ...
  <parameter name = "work" ><select  ... >
      ...
    </select></parameter></parameters>