Entity Discovery Search Reference
Entity discovery search has been included in this version of the Content Pack for Windows Dashboards and Reports to allow automatic discovery of the Active Directory Entities. You can enable entity discovery search as part of the installation steps. For directions on how to do that, see Enable entity discovery search in "Install and configure the Content Pack for Windows Dashboards and Reports."
A reference search is provided in this section. If you need to manually create the entity discovery search, follow the steps to manually import entities.
Manually import entities
Perform the following steps to import your entities for Active Directory Entity Type:
- From the main menu, click Configuration > Entities.
- Click Create Entity > Import from Search.
- Select Ad hoc Search and input the following search:
- Run the search and make sure you see your Windows AD data with an entity_type of
Active Directory
. - Click Next.
- Configure the following column rules:
- Click Import to import your entities.
- After the import job completes, click Set Up Recurring Import and follow the steps in Set up a recurring import of entities in ITSI in the Entity Integrations Manual.
- Click View all entities and confirm that your entities are displayed.
eventtype=msad_index_windows eventtype="msad-dc-health" | dedup host |eval entity_title=host |eval entity_type="Active Directory" |table entity_title host ForestName Site DomainDNSName DomainNetBIOSName Server entity_type
Column name | Import column as |
---|---|
entity_title | Entity Title |
host | Entity Alias |
Server | Entity Alias |
entity_type | Entity Type |
ForestName | Entity Information Field |
Site | Entity Information Field |
DomainDNSName | Entity Information Field |
DomainNetBIOSName | Entity Information Field |
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Content Pack for Windows Dashboards and Reports: 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.0
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