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Lightweight Windows Server Discovery

LW.Microsoft.Windows.Server.BaseOS.Discovery (Discovery)

This rule runs against every Windows Server computer and discovers Windows server from 2008R2 to 2016.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This discovery is used to discover the installation of Windows Server 2008R2-2016 by the updates and recommendations feature.

These are the parameters that can be overridden:

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Windows.Server.Computer
EnabledTrue
Frequency86400
RemotableFalse

Object Discovery Details:

Discovered Classes and their attribuets:

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DS DataSource LW.Microsoft.Windows.Server.BaseOS.Discovery.DataSource Default

Source Code:

<Discovery ID="LW.Microsoft.Windows.Server.BaseOS.Discovery" Enabled="true" Target="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Server.Computer" ConfirmDelivery="false" Remotable="false" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>Discovery</Category>

  <DiscoveryTypes>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="LW.Microsoft.BaseOS.2016"/>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="LW.Microsoft.BaseOS.2012R2"/>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="LW.Microsoft.BaseOS.2012"/>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="LW.Microsoft.BaseOS.2008R2"/>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="LW.Microsoft.Core.OS"/>

  </DiscoveryTypes>

  <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="LW.Microsoft.Windows.Server.BaseOS.Discovery.DataSource">

    <IntervalSeconds>86400</IntervalSeconds>

    <ComputerPrincipalName>$Target/Property[Type='Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer']/PrincipalName$</ComputerPrincipalName>

    <TimeoutSeconds>360</TimeoutSeconds>

  </DataSource>

</Discovery>