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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

You're reading from   ServiceNow IT Operations Management Demystifying IT Operations Management

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889080
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ajaykumar Guggilla Ajaykumar Guggilla
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Configuring discovery the easy way


An easy way to start using discovery is to use discovery quick start, which is under the discovery application. It allows us to set up discovery easily to configure the MID Server, create credentials, and schedule discovery.

Activating the plugin

Follow the steps to activate the discovery plugin. The following steps describe how to activate a plugin on the personal instance. Separate steps need to be followed to activate the plugin for the commercial version of ServiceNow. Plugins are activated from the HI portal.

To activate the discovery plugin, the administrator has to do this from the instance management console:

Note

These screenshots might vary from the actual instance for activating the plugin.

  1. Click on ACTIVATE, which is next to Discovery:
  1. Once you activate the Discovery plugin, now you can navigate to the application navigator and type in Discovery. This will bring up Discovery applications and the options, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Under the...
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