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Important This documentation space contains information about the on-premises version of BMC Helix Discovery. If you are using the SaaS version of BMC Helix Discovery, see BMC Helix Discovery (SaaS).

Service List node


A Service List node stores information about a list of Windows services running on a host.

Service List Lifecycle

The following section describes the scenarios in which a Service List node is created or destroyed. DDD nodes are never updated.

Creation

Whenever BMC Discovery scans an IP address, a Discovery Access node is created. A Service List node is created for the listing.

Removal

A Service List node is removed when the Discovery Access node which it is associated with has been destroyed through the Aging process.

Attributes and relationships of the ServiceList node

The attributes of the ServiceList node are described in the following table:

UI Name
Attribute Name and Type

Description

Discovery Method
discovery_method : string

Discovery method

Discovery Duration
discovery_duration : int

Time in seconds spent in discovery

Request Time
request_time : date

When this request was made

Reason
failure_reason : string

Reason for state or failure, if any

Details
details : string

Any other details

Not shown in UI
command_status_failure : boolean

Flag that this node has command failures linked to it

Not shown in UI
method_failure : boolean

Flag that this node has script failures linked to it

Not shown in UI
method_success : string

The name of the script that succeeded in getting this data

Access Method
access_method : string

The access method used by the script that succeeded in getting this data

Processing Messages
processing_messages : list:string

Optional list of processing messages

Skipped
skipped : boolean

Flag that this request was skipped

The relationships of the ServiceList node are described in the following table:

UI Name

Relationship

Description

Data Source Access

DiscoveryResult:
 DiscoveryAccessResult:
 DiscoveryAccess:
 DataSourceAccess

Related Data Source Access

Discovery Access

DiscoveryResult:
 DiscoveryAccessResult:
 DiscoveryAccess:
 DiscoveryAccess

Related Discovery Access

Provider Access

DiscoveryResult:
 DiscoveryAccessResult:
 DiscoveryAccess:
 ProviderAccess

Related Provider Access

Discovered Services

List:
 List:
 Member:
 DiscoveredService

Discovered Services in the list

Command Failures

DiscoveryResult:
 Metadata:
 Detail:
 CommandFailure

Command Failures

Script Failures

DiscoveryResult:
 Metadata:
 Detail:
 ScriptFailure

Script Failures

Data Source Access

DiscoveryResult:
 DiscoveryAccessResult:
 DiscoveryAccess:
 DataSourceAccess

Related Data Source Access

Discovery Access

DiscoveryResult:
 DiscoveryAccessResult:
 DiscoveryAccess:
 DiscoveryAccess

Related Discovery Access

Provider Access

DiscoveryResult:
 DiscoveryAccessResult:
 DiscoveryAccess:
 ProviderAccess

Related Provider Access

Command Failures

DiscoveryResult:
 Metadata:
 Detail:
 CommandFailure

Command Failures

Script Failures

DiscoveryResult:
 Metadata:
 Detail:
 ScriptFailure

Script Failures

Requested Discovery Access

RequestSource:
 Request:
 DiscoveryAccess:
 DiscoveryAccess

Discovery requested during discovery of another device

Requesting Pattern

DiscoveryResult:
 Request:
 Pattern:
 Pattern

Pattern from which the request to retrieve this information originated

Not shown in UI
(Relationship)

DiscoveryResult:
 Request:
 PatternExecution:
 PatternTrigger

Pattern Execution Trigger which requested retrieval of this information

Requesting Discovery Access

DiscoveryResult:
 Request:
 RequestSource:
 DiscoveryAccess

Requesting Discovery Access

Requesting External Event

DiscoveryResult:
 Request:
 RequestSource:
 ExternalEvent

Requesting External Event

 

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BMC Helix Discovery 25.2 (On-Premises)