This documentation supports the 21.3 (12.3) version of BMC Discovery.

Discovering services with API providers

Some technologies can only be accessed by using an API, or return the most accurate and complete information through their APIs. The API providers feature provides a means of access to various APIs.

Each API provider uses a dedicated credential type, for example the Kubernetes/OpenShift API provider credential. You use the API provider credential in a dedicated scan type, called an API scan. 

Related topics

Adding-credentials

Performing-a-discovery-run

Uploading-knowledge

BMC Discovery 21.05 includes the Kubernetes/OpenShift API provider at the time of release. Additional API providers can be added in Product Content with each TKU release.

This release currently supports:

API providers are similar to cloud providers in that:

  • the providers are means of accessing technologies by using an API
  • additional API requests are supported from patterns
  • API providers and cloud providers have their own credential types.

However, there are some important differences between API providers and cloud providers:

  • Some technologies may not require a specific API scan and only require API requests to be supported from patterns during an IP scan.
  • API requests can be called from patterns during either an API or IP scan.
  • API provider credentials allow IP address matching.