Create a serverless schedule for Amazon ECS discovery

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title: Create a serverless schedule for Amazon ECS discovery
description: Create a serverless schedule to discover Amazon Elastic Container Service \(Amazon ECS\) and Amazon Elastic Container Registry \(ECR\) resources in a standalone discovery.
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# Create a serverless schedule for Amazon ECS discovery

Create a serverless schedule to discover Amazon Elastic Container Service \(Amazon ECS\) and Amazon Elastic Container Registry \(ECR\) resources in a standalone discovery.

## Before you begin

-   Verify you have an AWS service account ID and have created AWS credentials. For more information, see the prerequisites section in [Amazon ECS resource discovery with Patterns](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery-and-service-mapping-patterns/aws-ecs-fargate-discovery.md).
-   Download the [Cloud Discovery patterns spreadsheet](https://downloads.docs.servicenow.com/resource/enus/api/servicenow-discovery-patterns-api-details.xlsx) so you can grant user permissions required for running the Discovery patterns.

Role required: discovery\_admin

## About this task

Discovering ECR resources requires running the Amazon AWS - ECS pattern before using Aqua Trivy to scan container images. To discover only ECS and ECR resources without performing a full AWS pattern discovery, create a serverless discovery schedule using the Amazon AWS - ECS pattern.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Discovery** > **Discovery Schedules**.

2.  Create the discovery schedule record.

    1.  Select **New**.

    2.  On the form, fill in the fields.

        |Field|Description|
        |-----|-----------|
        |Name|Unique name for this discovery schedule.|
        |Discover|Scan type, which should be Serverless.|
        |MID server|Name of the MID Server to use for this schedule.|
        |Active|Enables this schedule for discovery.|
        |Run|Determines the run schedule of the discovery.|

    3.  Select **Submit**.

3.  Create the execution pattern.

    1.  In the Discovery Schedules page, select the record you created.

    2.  In the **Serverless Execution Patterns** tab, select **New**.

    3.  On the form, fill in the fields.

        |Field|Description|
        |-----|-----------|
        |Name|Descriptive name for this record.|
        |Pattern|Pattern to be used for this schedule, which should be Amazon AWS - ECS.|
        |Proxy Host|Fully qualified domain name of the machine on which you're installing the proxy server, which should be Global.|
        |Active|Enables this schedule for discovery.|

    4.  Select **Submit**.

4.  Set the pattern launcher parameters.

    1.  In the **Discovery Pattern Launcher Parameters** tab, select the record you created.

    2.  On the form, fill in the fields.

        |Parameter|Value|
        |---------|-----|
        |cloud\_account\_id|AWS cloud service account ID.|
        |cloud\_cred\_id|Sys\_id of the AWS credentials you created on the ServiceNow AI Platform.|
        |cloud\_datacenter\_type|Name of the AWS Datacenter table, which should be cmdb\_ci\_aws\_datacenter.|

    3.  Select **Submit**.


## What to do next

Either execute discovery immediately by selecting **Discover now** or wait until the predefined schedule triggers the discovery.

**Parent Topic:**[AWS discovery using patterns](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery-and-service-mapping-patterns/data-discovered-aws-patterns.md)

**Related topics**  


[Amazon ECS resource discovery with Patterns](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery-and-service-mapping-patterns/aws-ecs-fargate-discovery.md)

[Scan container images](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery/container-image-task.md)