SPP's Account Discovery jobs discover accounts of the assets that are in the scope of a profile. Account Discovery jobs can be assigned to multiple assets in the same partition. Account Discovery jobs can include service discovery.

You can configure, schedule, test, and run Account Discovery jobs. After the job has run, you can select whether to manage the account, if it was not identified to be automatically managed.

  1. Create an Account Discovery job and associate assets or create an asset and associate the Account Discovery job. For more information, see Adding an Account Discovery job and Adding an asset.

  2. Account Discovery jobs can be scheduled to run automatically. In addition, you can manually launch these jobs in any of the following ways:

    • From Asset Management > Discovery > Accounts, click Discover Accounts or Discover Services.

    • From Asset Management > Assets > View Details, click Discover Accounts.

  3. After the Account Discovery job runs, you can mark the managed accounts from Discovery > Discovered Items > Accounts:

    • Click Disable to prevent SPP from managing the selected account.

    • Click Enable to manage the selected account and assign it to the scope of the default profile.

For information about discovery jobs that have run, search the Activity Center. SPP lists the account discovery events in the Account Discovery Activity category.