Extracting Additional Data from an IT Discovery Tool

BDNA Data Platform 5.5

Adding a pass-through configuration file to an IT Discovery Tool process lets you extract additional data from that tool. There are two types of pass-through files:

Pass-through inputs of specific data from your discovery data source that is not included by default.
Pass-through_A data adds or imports additional attributes related to software from your discovery data source.

To enable the processing of a pass-through configuration file, you must first create a Pass-through or Pass_through_A configuration file that contains the instructions necessary to retrieve the data from the data source you are using as a pass-through. We have provided examples of a Pass-through and Pass-through_A configuration file.

After you create the applicable configuration file, you can add it as a data source of an IT Discovery process.