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AWS Organizations pattern-based discovery

Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds AWS Organizations accounts on your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources may require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

Verify the AWS discovery prerequisites section in AWS discovery using patterns.

Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Amazon AWS Organizations pattern.

FieldDescription
Account Id \[account\_id\]Unique identifier \(ID\) of the account.
Name \[name\]Name assigned to the account.
Datacenter Type \[datacenter\_type\]Type of datacenter. The value is set to AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter].
Object ID \[object\_id\]Unique ID of the account.
Datacenter URL \[datacenter\_url\]URL of the AWS datacenter. This field is populated for AWS GovCloud accounts.
Is management account \[is\_master\_account\]Indicates whether this account is the management (primary) account of the organization. - true: Management account - false: Member account
Parent account \[parent\_account\]References the Cloud Service Account \[cmdb\_ci\_cloud\_service\_account\] table \(management account\).

CI relationships

The Amazon AWS Organizations pattern creates these relationships to support AWS Organizations account discovery.

CIRelationshipCI
Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] (management account)Members::Member ofCloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] (member account)
Cloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] (member account)ReferencesCloud Service Account [cmdb_ci_cloud_service_account] (management account)

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