ServiceNow CIS-Discovery free question 1 / 10 · Domain 1: Discovery Pattern Design
You want to create a new pattern that only Discovery uses, to build a list of the devices on your network. What do you select in the Pattern type field?
- Infrastructure
- Connection
- Classification
- Application
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Answer: A
Why this is correct
Patterns can be of the infrastructure or application type. Infrastructure patterns are used only by Discovery for creating lists of devices, and the Pattern type field offers Infrastructure for the horizontal host discovery performed by Discovery.
Why the other options are wrong
"Application" … Application patterns serve both Service Mapping and Discovery, which use the same application patterns. They produce lists of applications and service instance maps, not a device list.
"Connection" … Connection is the name of a section inside an application pattern, used to find outbound connections. The Pattern type field offers only Application and Infrastructure.
"Classification" … Classification is the second phase of horizontal discovery, where the classification probe determines the CI class. It is not one of the values of the Pattern type field.
Key point
The type follows the purpose. A device inventory calls for Infrastructure; finding applications calls for Application, and Service Mapping reuses the same application patterns to draw service instance maps.
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