Safeguard for Privileged Passwords allows you to set up Account Discovery jobs to run automatically against the assets it manages in the scope of a partition.

To create an Account Discovery job

  1. Log in as the Asset Administrator and navigate to  Administrative Tools | Discovery | Account Discovery tile.
  2. Click  Add to create a new Account Discovery job.
    1. Browse to select a partition.
    2. Enter a Name for the setting, such as Daily. Description is optional.
    3. Select the Discovery Type that is the platform, for example, Windows, Unix, or Directory. Make sure the Discovery Type is valid for the assets associated with the Partition selected earlier on this dialog. If the Discovery Type is Directory, select the directory on which the Account Discovery job runs.
    4. Schedule the discovery job to run daily starting in about five minutes.
    5. In Rules, click Add to add a rule. Enter a Name, select Find All in Find By, and click OK.

      Note: If you opt to experiment with finding accounts based on rules, note that all search terms return exact matches and are case-sensitive.

  3. Click OK to save the Account Discovery job.
  4. Wait for the Account Discovery job to run.
  5. After the Account Discovery job runs see the job results and the accounts discovered. At any time, click  Refresh to update the information.
    1. Click the Account Discovery Results tile to see the results of the discovery job run.
    2. Click the Discovery Accounts tile to see the accounts that were discovered.
  6. You can also search the Activity Center for information about discovery jobs that have run. This is similar information as presented in the the Account Discovery Results grid.
    1. Under I would like to see, click Edit and select Password Management Activity.
    2. Click the Run button.
    3. In the Events column, the Account Discovery events display.