Service Discovery Results
Setting up Service Discovery
To discover Windows services, you must first create an Account Discovery job, including an Account Discovery Rule, and select Discovery Services. When the discovery job is run, services are discovered. The discovery of services is not dependent on the discovery rules. For more information, see Adding an Account Discovery job.
Viewing Service Discovery Results
Service Discovery is configured on an Account Discovery job but runs separately. You can view the results of service discovery by time frame.
- Navigate to Administrative Tools | Discovery and click the Service Discovery Results tile.
- On the Service Discovery Results grid:
- Click
Refresh to refresh the results.
- Select the time frame of the completed jobs you want to display which ranges from the last 24 hours to the last 7, 30, 60, or 90 days. Or, click Custom to create a custom time frame.
- Click
Search and enter the character string to be used to search for a match. For more information, see Search box.
- View the following information displays for each job:
- For additional detail on a Service Account Discovery job result, double-click the result row to view the Service Account Discovery Results pop-up window. On this window, click # of Accounts Found to see a list of the accounts.
Discovered Services
The Discovery | Discovered Services tile displays information for the selected partition on which the services were discovered. If desired, dependencies must be manually removed.
The Asset Administrator or delegated administrator can configure service discovery jobs to scan Windows assets and discover Windows services and tasks that may require authorization credentials. If the Windows asset is joined to a Windows domain, the authorization credentials can be local on the Windows asset or be Active Directory credentials.
Running Service Discovery jobs automatically and manually
Discovered services and tasks association to known Safeguard accounts
Service discovery jobs associate Windows services and tasks with accounts that are already managed by Safeguard for Privileged Passwords. The accounts put under management display with an Account Status of Managed. When the account's password or SSH key is changed by Safeguard, Safeguard updates the password or SSH key corresponding to the services or tasks on the asset according to the asset's profile change settings.
Service Discovery with Active Directory
A discovered service or task configured to use Active Directory authentication can be automatically associated to the asset with the account managed by Safeguard. Effectively, the asset will have an account dependency on the account.
To automatically associate, the Account Discovery job (which runs when Safeguard synchronizes the directory) must have the Automatically Manage Found Accounts check box selected. For more information, see Adding an Account Discovery rule.
View Service Discovery job status
From the Activity Center, you can select the Activity Category named Service Discovery Activity, which shows the Event outcomes: Service Discovery Succeeded, Service Discovery Failed, or Service Discovery Started.
Discovered Services toolbar and properties
Navigate to Administrative Tools | Discovery | Discovered Services tile.
Use these toolbar buttons to manage the discovered services.
Table 84: Discovery: Discovered Services toolbar
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Partition |
Select the partition for the discovered services. |
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 Show |  Ignore
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The Show and Ignore buttons control the Service Ignored column on this window so the administrator can either display or ignore the rows.
The Account Status column is controlled by the Manage and Ignore buttons on the Discovered Accounts grid. For more information, see Discovered Accounts. |
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 Show Ignored
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Display the accounts with a Status of Ignored. |
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 Hide Ignored
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Hide the accounts with a Status of Ignored. |
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Refresh |
Retrieve and display an updated list of discovered accounts. Ignored accounts are not displayed if Hide Ignored is selected. |
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Search |
Enter the character string to be used to search for a match. For more information, see Search box. |
The grid shows the Asset Name, Account, Domain Name, System Name, and Account Status for the Discovered Account that Safeguard found that is matched up with the service discovered. The service is identified by a Service Name (with a Service Type of Service or Task).
Table 85: Discovery: Discovered Services properties
| Asset Name |
The name of the asset where the service or task was discovered. |
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Account |
The name of the account that maps to the Discovered Account column. |
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Domain Name |
The domain name of the account if the account is an Active Directory account. Used to help determine uniqueness. |
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System Name |
The system or asset that hosts the discovered mapped account. |
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Account Status |
The Account Status column is controlled by the Manage and Ignore buttons on the Discovered Accounts grid. For more information, see Discovered Accounts.
The discovered account may be:
- Managed: A discovered account that is managed
- Blank (no value): A discovered account that was not auto managed when discovered
- Ignored: A discovered account that was not auto managed and was ignored from discovery
- Disabled: A discovered account that previously had the status of Managed and then was marked Ignored
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| Dependent Account |
A  check displays if the account is associated as an account dependency on the asset. The value is blank if the account is not associated as an account dependency of the asset. This automatic dependency mapping only happens if the Automatically Manage Found Accounts option is selected on the Account Discovery job associated with the profile that is associated to the asset. For more information, see Adding an Account Discovery job. |
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Service Type |
Type of service discovered. Values may be Service or Task. |
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Service Name |
The name of the discovered service or task. |
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Service Enabled |
A check displays if the service or task on the asset is enabled on the target machine. If there is no check mark, the service or task is disabled on the target machine. |
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Service Ignored |
Ignored means the service or task will not show up in the grid. In other words, the service or task is hidden. This is controlled by the Show | Ignore actions on this grid. |
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Discovered Account |
The discovered account name. If the account has an Account Status of Managed, then the Account, Domain Name, and System Name display. |
| Date/Time Discovered |
The date and time when the service or task was discovered. |
SSH Key Discovery
You can schedule one or more SSH Key Discovery jobs to run automatically against the accounts you have added to Safeguard for Privileged Passwords (SPP). The SSH keys in the scope of the discovery job may include SSH keys that were previously added (manually) to the SPP partition.
SSH Key Discovery can also be run
SSH Key Discovery jobs include the rules Safeguard for Privileged Passwords uses to perform the discovery of SSH keys in managed accounts. You can create or edit an SSH Key Discovery job from Administrative Tools | Settings | SSH Key Management | Discover SSH Key. For more information, see Discover SSH Key settings.
When an SSH Key Discovery job runs, the found SSH key is added the partition identified.
Supported platforms
SSH Key Discovery is supported on the following platforms:
- Hardware/Custom (A custom script is required to accommodate how keys are handled.)
- Drac
- Fortinet
- Junos
- PanOs
- Window OS
- General Unix style platforms
- Linux
- Aix
- Hpux
- Solaris
- F5BigIP
- FreeBSD
- MacOS
Properties and toolbar
Navigate to Administrative Tools | Discovery | SSH Key Discovery.
Use these toolbar buttons to manage the SSH Key Discovery jobs.
Table 86: SSH Key Discovery: Toolbar
 Add |
Add an SSH Key Discovery job. For more information, see Adding an SSH Key Discovery job. |
 Delete Selected |
Delete the selected SSH Key Discovery job. |
Refresh |
Update the list of SSH Key Discovery jobs. |
 Edit |
Modify the selected SSH Key Discovery job. You can also double-click a row to open the edit dialog. |
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 Discover SSH Keys
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Discover the SSH keys. |
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Details |
View additional details about the selected SSH Key Discovery job. A task may complete successfully but still have Warnings. Click Details to view task execution activity including any warnings. |
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 Information
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View the accounts associated with the selected discover SSH key settings by account Name and Asset Name. The Inherited column has a check mark if the assignment is an inherited association via the asset. If not inherited, the accounts have an explicit assignment to a Profile/SSH Key Discovery job. For more information, see About profiles. |
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Search |
Enter the character string to be used to search for a match. For more information, see Search box. |
Account Discovery jobs display in the grid.
Table 87: SSH Key Discovery: SSH Key Discovery job grid
| Name |
Name of the SSH Key Discovery job |
| Creator |
Indicates the source of the job, for example, Automated System or a specific administrator. |
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Partition |
The partition in which to manage the discovered SSH keys. |
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Schedule |
Designates when the SSH Key Discovery job runs. |
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Profile Count |
Lists the number of profiles that are configured with this job. Click the link to go to the SSH Key Profiles dialog that lists the Name and Description of the SSH key profiles that are associated with this SSH key discovery job. |
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Account Count |
Lists the number of accounts are associated with this SSH key discovery job via profile association. Click the link to view the account Name and parent System Name of this SSH key discovery job. |
Double-click on an Account Discovery job to view the SSH Key Discovery dialog, including the Partition, the SSH key discovery job Name, Description, and Schedule.
SSH Key Discovery job workflow
The SSH Key Discovery jobs discover SSH keys of the accounts that are in the scope of the profile. You can configure, schedule, test, and run SSH Key Discovery jobs. After a job has run, you can select whether to manage the SSH key, if it was not identified to be automatically managed.
When an SSH Key Discovery job runs, the found SSH key is added the partition identified.
- Set up the partition with the SSH key profile. For more information, see SSH Key Profiles tab (partitions).
- Create an SSH Key Discovery job. For more information, see Adding an SSH Key Discovery job.
- SSH Key Discovery jobs can be scheduled to run automatically. In addition you can manually launch a job:
- From Administrative Tools | Discovery | SSH Key Discovery select the SSH Key Discovery job to run, then click Discover SSH Keys.
- From Administrative Tools | Accounts, right-click on the account then select
Discover SSH Keys.
- After the SSH Key Discovery job runs, click SSH Key Discovery Results tile to view the assets found. For more information, see SSH Key Discovery Results.
Note: The discovery job finds all SSH keys that match the discovery rule's criteria regardless of the state and reports only the SSH keys discovered that do not currently exist. SSH Key Discovery does not update existing accounts.
Search the Activity Center for information about discovery jobs that have run. Safeguard for Privileged Passwords lists the SSH Key Discovery events in the SSH Key Discovery Activity category. For more information, see Activity Center.
