As part of creating or modifying a discovery pattern, use the Create connection operation to provide information about an outgoing connection. This operation is only available for connection sections.

Before you begin

Role required: none

Navigate to the relevant step:

  1. On the pattern form, select the relevant connection section.
  2. Select the relevant step or create a pattern step by clicking The Add a step button.

Basic knowledge of programming is desirable.

Role required: pd_admin

About this task

Always start with this step when creating a connection section entry for a new pattern.

Procedure

  1. Select Create Connection from the Operation list.
  2. Fill in the fields, as appropriate.
  3. If in Debug mode, test the step by clicking Test and checking that the operation brings the result you expected.

Example

To create a connection from Microsoft Exchange CAS to Exchange Mailboxes, define the Create Connection operation as follows:


Defining Create Connection operation

What to do next

cmdb-key-value
Discovery also collects cloud tags that are specific to each virtual machine (VM) and saves them to the Key Value [cmdb_key_value] table.