Discovery: Overview | BI Cloud

What is the Discovery Scanner?

The discovery scanner discovers assets, such as systems, databases, applications, or network devices. It then onboard assets into Password Safe.

How is it useful?

The discovery scanner streamlines the process of identifying what exists in your environment. It ensures that all assets are properly tracked.

How do I access discovery scans?

1. Use a browser to sign in to your BeyondInsight/Password Safe URL.
   This URL is provided in the BeyondTrust welcome email and includes your site URL followed by /login.
2. From the left menu, click .
   The Discovery page displays.

The Scans page

1. Left menu: Easy access to all pages in BeyondInsight/Password Safe, including the Home, Assets, Smart Rules, Discovery Scanner, Management Systems, Managed Accounts, Password Safe, Secrets Safe , Analytics and Reporting, Configuration, and About pages.
2. Header: Navigate to your favorite pages, view your notifications, access your connected apps, and set your account preferences.

3. Select to Run a New Discovery Scan.
4. Tabs: View Active/Completed Scans or Scheduled Scans.
5. Filter dropdowns: Select a filter to refine your results.

   Filter types

   • Last Updated filter: Filter by last updated timeframe.

   • Scan State: Filter by All, Completed, or Active.

   • Filter by: Filter by Agent Name, Workgroup, Scan Name, Scan Start Time, or Scan End Time.

   
   

6. Grid display preferences: Set display preferences on the Scans grid using the following options represented by icons above the grid:
   • Click to refresh the list, to download the list to a .csv file, to select which columns to display on the page, andto expand the grid.
7. Scans list columns:

   Column Names

   • Agent Name
   • Workgroup
   • Scan State
   • Scan Name
   • Status
   • Hosts Found
   • Last Updated
   • Progress
   • Hosts In Range
   • Created By
   • Created
   • Smart Rule
   • Scan Start Time
   • Scan End Time
   • Total Scanners
   • Scan Template
   • Summary
   • Scan Elapsed Time
   • Processing Elapsed Time

8. Scans grid: Displays information based on filter selections.
9. List navigation options: Navigate in the Scans list.

Manage scan jobs

From the Scans page, you can perform the following:

• View active, completed, and scheduled scans
• Locate specific scans by using the date, status, agent name, workgroup, scan name, start time, and end time filters
• Use the row actions available from the vertical ellipsis menu for a scan to perform the following:
  • Open the discovery report for a completed scan
  • Stop active scans that are currently running
  • View and edit details for scheduled scans
  • Run completed and scheduled scans now
  • Deactivate scheduled scans
  • Reactivate inactive scans

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You can view inactive scans by selecting Inactive from the Status filter above the grid. You can still run inactive scheduled scans and completed scans that are linked to inactive scheduled scans by clicking the vertical ellipsis for the scan and selecting Run Scan Now. You can also reactivate inactive scans from the vertical ellipsis menu if desired.

For configuration of Discovery, see Discovery: Configure.