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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2017
Servicenow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yuval Rimar, Tel Aviv, IL;
Haviv Rosh, Tel Aviv, IL;
ServiceNow, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present approach relates to determining suitable entry points for initiating discovery and mapping of an enterprise service. For example, one or more tables may be utilized that include information regarding connections and/or communication between configuration items (CIs) of the enterprise service. From the tables, a graph may be created with nodes of the graph representing an internet protocol (IP) address and a port associated with the CIs, and edges of the graph representing the connections and/or communication between the CIs. The graph may be traversed according to outbound edges starting from a node with zero or few outbound edges. The nodes that are unreachable, or untraversed, may be flagged as suitable entry point candidates. In some embodiments, the flagged suitable entry point candidates may be reconciled with already known entry points included in the one or more tables.