Discovery Templates

Discovery Templates are pre-designed frameworks or guidelines that streamline the process of uncovering and mapping the technology landscape within an organization. 

These templates provide a structured approach to gathering critical information about various assets, configurations, and dependencies.

To leverage this provides a configurable Discovery Templates page where you can add commands based on the OS flavor.

User persona: Application Designer

Configure Discovery Template

To configure the Discovery Template , perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to Configurations > Discovery > Discovery Template.
   
   
2. On the Discovery Template page, Select New to create new templates.
   Figure: Discovery template
   
   
3. Add the name of your template and select information for source and target.
   Figure: Template
   
   
4. On the Template pop-up page, specify the required details. For more information about the fields on the Template pop page, see Field Description.
   
   Field Description

   Field	Description
   Template Name	Specify the name of Template for Discovery.Figure: Checkicon to use the default template. If you uncheck Default, you can add details to create your own template.
   Source
   Tenant	Select the type of tenant from the drop-down list. Figure: Tenant type
   Protocol	Select the type of protocol for the template. Figure: Protocol
   OS Platform	Select the OS Platform for the template. Figure: OS Platform
   Template	Select the predefined template from the drop-down list.
   Target
   Tenant	Specify the tenant for the target.
   OS Flavor	Select the OS Flavor for the target.

5.  Click Next to add details to your template. The screenshot of the Details page appears as shown below.
   Figure: Template Details
   Figure: Parameter Details
   
   
6.  Specify the Template details and Parameter details for the Discovery Template. Enable the toggle bar to make the template Active. Refer to the field description for more details.
   
   Field Description

   Field	Description
   Parameter Name	Specify the Parameter Name.
   Parameter Value	Specify the value for the specified parameter.
   Parameter Type	Select the type of parameter from the drop-down list that contains Hardware, Software, or Additional.
   Actions	Click the Actions icon to specify or edit the content parser logic of a specific parameter. Note Based on the content parser configuration, the output is displayed on the JOB DETAILS page. If the content parser is not configured for a parameter, the complete output gets displayed on the JOB DETAILS page.

7. Under Actions, click the edit icon to view the Content Parser page. the pop-up screen appears as shown below.
   Figure: Content Parser
   The output of the discovered device value is displayed based on the configured Parameter Name, Parameter Value, and the Content Parser scenario. Refer to the Field Description for more details.
   Field Description

   Field	Description
   Content Type	Select the content type from the list: Line Free Form
   Output Type	Select the output type from the list: Single Value: Select the option if the output is a single line text. Multiple Value: Select the option if the output is multiple line text. Figure: Output Type
   Preceding Text	Specify the preceding text for the selected output type. This field is displayed if the Content Type is selected as Free Form.
   Succeeding Text	Specify the succeeding text for the selected output type. This field is displayed if the Content Type is selected as Free Form.
   Occurrence	Specify the occurrence of the specified preceding and succeeding text or Line delimiter and key delimiter.
   Delimiter	The Key Delimiter is a character that separates the User-defined key and the other text in the output. Select the Key Delimiter from the list. By default, Colon option is selected. If you select Others, type in the character that has to be considered as a Key Delimiter in the text box. The Line Delimiter is a character, which indicates the start of a new line for a character. The text in the output starts from a new line after the specified line delimiter. Select the line delimiter from the list. By default, New Line option is selected. If you select Others, type in the character that has to be considered as a line delimiter in the text box.
   Parser Index	Specify the value for the parser index.
   Defined Key	Specify a defined key for the output. This user defined key stores the value for the parsing details.
   Not Contains	Specify the text that should not be considered while parsing.
   Output Data Type	Select the output data type from the drop-down list. Figure: Output data type
   Starts With	Specify the text with which the parsing should happen.
   Is Starts With	Select this checkbox to enable the content parser to consider the text specified in Starts With and Not Contains.
   Final Output	Select the check box if the corresponding row of parsing output is the final output.
   Is Trim	Check Is Trim icon   to trim the contents of the text.

   
   
8. Click Submit. The Discovery Template page with the specified parameter list is displayed.