Discovery Admin Workspace

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The Discovery Admin Workspace serves as a central location for monitoring, tracking, and completing discovery-related tasks. Experience a streamlined discovery process and greater efficiency with the integration of schedules, diagnostics, tuning, anomaly detection, and more within this single workspace.

Prerequisites

Install and activate the Discovery plugin (com.snc.discovery) before you install Discovery Admin Workspace (sn_disco_workspace).

Warning: If you install Discovery Admin Workspace first, Discovery schedules may fail to run due to plugin dependencies.

You must also have the latest ServiceNow Store version of the following applications:

  • Visibility Content
  • (optional) Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns

As of Discovery Admin Workspace v1.17.0, Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns is automatically installed and updated as a dependency. For earlier versions, install or update the application manually as needed.

Dependencies

Installing Discovery Admin Workspace (sn_disco_workspace) activates or installs the following applications:

  • Service Operations WorkspaceService Reliability Management (SRM) Common (sn_sow_srm_common)
  • CMDB Workspace (sn_cmdb_ws)
  • Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns (sn_itom_pattern)
  • ITOM Discovery Admin Workspace (com.snc.itom.daw)
  • ITOM Configuration Console (sn_itom_admin)
  • ITOM Guided Setup - New (sn_sow_guide_setup)
  • CMDB CI Class Models (sn_cmdb_ci_class)

Note: For on-premises deployments, dependencies aren't installed or updated automatically. For more information, see Getting apps as an on-premise customer.

For a list of Discovery Admin Workspace application dependencies, see Plugins or applications installed with ITOM Visibility.

Roles

The following roles have access to the Discovery Admin Workspace:

  • discovery_admin
  • admin
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