How to verify the success of rediscovery tasks.

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Seeking guidance on how to verify the success of these rediscovery tasks in OC
While examining the “Inventory” section, noticed that the “Discovered” column often displays dates from several years ago, despite recent rediscovery activities. Is there a method available to pinpoint the most recent discovery

Also the ‘last updated’ column does not reflect the recurring task after it has been scheduled for every 24 hours

Environment

UIM 20.4.x/23.4.1

probe : discovery_server/ discovery_agent

Resolution

In OC, we are populating the "Last updated" column from CM_COMPUTER_SYSTEM tables change_time field and "Discovered" column from CM_COMPUTER_SYSTEM tables create_time.

"Last Updated" column should represent the date when the discovery server modifies the inventory item. Something like a new attribute added or updated on the discovered entity. 

Whenever we rediscover a device using force component rediscovery or run discovery form Setup Wizard , it's doesn't update the change_time value or create_time value.
That's why you are not seeing the updated time after rediscovery.

It updates the alive_time field in CM_COMPUTER_SYSTEM table but this column is not mapped with any column in OC as of now.

You can check the alive_time column in database to verify the success of rediscovery task.

Also can create an enhancement request to add this field in OC inventory