Discovery Pre-requisite Check

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May 10, 2024

  

What is Pre-requisite Check and When is this option used? 

In an IT (Information Technology) environment, Discovery job activity usually takes time for capturing all the device details for a specific IP address. Therefore, a Pre-requisite Check can be performed to see if the system is "up" and if all the necessary information is available before starting the advanced Discovery. 

In the Summit Discovery module, the Pre-requisite Check feature in the Discovery List page grid enables the Analyst to do a Pre-requisite Check for a specific job. The feature captures the system name and IP address of the devices and generates success or failure reports for configured jobs. Pre-requisite Check feature thus, ensures that the information and thumb rules are applied to Infrastructure Ports, Protocols, Privileges and Security Groups. The feature thus helps to generate a high-quality output following the Discovery scan activity.  

 What are the benefits of the Pre-requisite Check feature in the Discovery Module? 

  • Enhances the rate of basic Discovery scan activity.  

  • Helps to understand system availability in the IT environment.  

  • Refines Discovery job based on success or failure reports.

  • Aids to troubleshoot the errors before building or configuring the Discovery job.

 

How is Summit implementing it? 

In the Discovery module, the following list of features is available for the Pre-requisite Check option at the Analyst level: 

  • Create and toggle Pre-requisite job or actual Discovery job.

  • Select the created job as a Pre-requisite job or the actual job.

  • List and download the report successes or failure job report with discovery errors for confirming the Pre-requisite job results. 

Use cases

Refer to the section for the Use case infographics related to Pre-requisite Check feature. 

Figure: Pre-requisite Check for devices in large IT estate

Pre-requisite Check UI capabilities

Pre-requisite Check needs to be initiated before the start of Discovery job activity. There are two ways to start the Pre-requisite Check for a specific job.

They are:

  • Auto-run the Pre-requisite Check from the Discovery List page.

  • Enable the Pre-requisite Check for specific job from Discovery template.

The following section describes the UI capabilities to start the Pre-requisite Check for a specific job in the SummitAI application.

Auto running the Pre-requisite Check for a specific job

To auto-run the Pre-requisite Check for a specific job from the Discovery List page, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Admin > Discovery &Monitoring > Discovery. The DISCOVERY LIST page displays as shown in the screenshot.

    Figure: Discovery List page

  2. On the LIST page, click the Pre-requisite Check icon. Pre-requisite Check for the IP addresses configured for specific Job Name starts automatically.

  3. Click the View the data icon . It redirects to DISCOVERY REPORT page.

    Figure: DISCOVERY REPORT page


    Pre-requisite Check for the IP addresses configured for specific Job Name starts automatically. 

Enabling Pre-requisite Check for specific job from Discovery template

 To enable the Pre-requisite Check for specific job from Discovery template, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Admin > Discovery & Monitoring > Discovery. 

    Figure: Discovery List page

  2. Click the specific Job Name to enable the Pre-requisite Check.

    Figure: Job Name

  3. Enable Pre-requisite Check. 

    Figure: Enable Pre-requisite Check

  4. Click SUBMIT.


    Figure: Pop-up message


    Note

    Only Pre-requisite Check will be initiated, not the complete Discovery. 

  5. Click SHOWLIST on the ACTION panel to view the job.

    Figure: SHOWLIST to view jobs

    The DISCOVERY LIST page gets displayed as in the screenshot.

    Figure: Discovery List page

 Viewing the success report of Pre-requisite Check

To view the success report of the Discovery job under Pre-requisite Check, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Admin > Discovery &Monitoring > Discovery.

  2. Click the View the data icon . It redirects to DISCOVERY REPORT page.

    Figure: DISCOVERY REPORT page

  3. Click FILTERS on the ACTION panel to view the set of Discovery Records.

    The FILTERS field on the DISCOVERY REPORT appears as shown in the screen shot.

     
       Figure: FILTERS field

    For more information on FILTERS fields, see Field description.

    Table: Field description

    Field

    Description

    DETAILS

    Tenant

    Select the name of the Tenant.

    Proxy

    Name of the Proxy.

    Type

    Type of check (Pre-requisite or Nmap).

    Status

    Select the status of check (Success or Error).

    Ping Protocol

    Select the type of protocol (ICMP, TCP or UDP).

    Protocol

    Select the type of protocol (WMI, SSH, SNMP).

    Search By

    Search by IP address or host name.

    Search Value

    Search by IP address if it is enabled in Search By field.

    Job Name

    Name of Discovery job.

    From Date

    Insertion date of Pre-requisite check.

    To Date

    End date of Pre-requisite check.


  4. Select the Tenant, Type as Pre-requisite, Status as Successful, Job Name from the drop-down list and click SUBMIT. For example, test job 116 is selected from the Job Name list. 

    Figure: FILTERS option

  5. Click SUBMIT. The DISCOVERY REPORT displays the list of IP Address and its Host Name for the specific Job Name.

     Figure: DISCOVERY REPORT


  6. Click EXPORT TO EXCEL or EXPORT ALL on the ACTION panel to export all the records to Excel sheet. 
     
    Figure: Export to Excel option

    The Discovery report for the filtered records in excel format are displayed as shown screenshot. 

    Figure: Discovery Report in Excel format 

  Viewing the Failure report of Discovery job

 To view the Failure report of the Discovery job under Pre-requisite Check, perform the following steps:

  1. Navigate to Admin > Discovery &Monitoring > Discovery.

  2. Click the View the data icon . It redirects to DISCOVERY REPORT page.

    Figure: DISCOVERY REPORT page


  3. Click FILTERS on the ACTION panel and on the FILTERS field, select the Type as Pre-Requisite Check and Status as Error.

        For example, here Job Name is selected as test job 116 to fetch the details configured for the job.
       
         Figure: Status selection

  • By default, Status is in Successful.

  • If Error is selected under Status, Ping Protocol does not appear and only IP Address option appears under Search By

  • If Job Name is not selected, it will fetch the data for all the jobs.

       4. Click SUBMIT.

       The DISCOVERY LIST page displays the error reports for the configured IPs.

     

      Figure: Error Report

If there are multiple errors for a particular IP Address and Protocol, they get listed as coma-based under the Error Report.

Alternatively, you can also view the Discovery report by performing the following steps:

 

  1. Navigate to Admin > Discovery & Monitoring > Discovery Report. The DISCOVERY LIST page displays as shown in the screenshot.

  2. Click FILTERS on the ACTIONS panel.

       

       Figure: FILTERS option

      3.  Select the Type as Pre-requisite Check from the drop-down list and click SUBMIT. The FILTERS field on the DISCOVERY REPORT appears as shown              in the screen shot.
       
       Figure: FILTERS field

     4. Click SUBMIT. The DISCOVERY REPORT displays the Pre-requisite Check data showing the list of IP Address and its Host Name for the specific Job          Name. 

     

       Figure: DISCOVERY REPORT

      5. Click EXPORT TO EXCEL or EXPORT ALL on the ACTION panel to export all the records to Excel sheet. 
      
        Figure: Export to Excel option

      The Discovery report for the filtered records in excel format are displayed as shown screenshot. 
     
      Figure: Discovery Report in Excel format