Discovery Mechanism

This section describes the Agent Driven Inventory discovery mechanism.

  1. When Agent Driven Inventory Discovery (ADID) is enabled, a schedule should be defined for what to be scanned and when to scan by configuring the agentDrivenInventoryDiscovery.xml file. For details about this file, see Agent Driven Inventory Discovery Configuration File.
  2. UD Agent follows the schedule that you defined to scan.
  3. When the scan is finished, Agent tries to send back the scan results, that is, the scan files.
  4. When Data Flow Probe receives the scan files, it forwards them to the XML Enricher. Meanwhile, the Agent Driven Inventory Discovery job fetches the intermediate results generated by the XML Enricher and processes them further.
  5. The Agent Driven Inventory Discovery job sends the results to UCMDB Server database.