Systems and methods for selective discovery of services

A method of operating a discovery scheduler, comprising:

• retrieving a discovery schedule for a set of services or service groups associated with a client network;
• retrieving a filter of the discovery schedule;
• applying the filter of the discovery schedule to a service table, a service group table, or a combination thereof, identify a set of services that satisfy the filter;
• defining a discovery job based on the set of services;
• and
• instructing a discovery server associated with the client network to execute the discovery job to discover the set of services associated with the client network.

One or more non-transitory, computer-readable media at least collectively storing instructions executable by a processor configured to implement a discovery scheduler, the instructions comprising instructions to:

• receive a name, a discovery type, and an active status for a discovery schedule, wherein the discovery type comprises services or service groups;
• receive an attribute of a service or service group, a comparison operator, and an attribute value for a filter of the discovery schedule;
• using the filter of the discovery schedule to query a services table, a service groups table, or a combination thereof, to retrieve a set of services that satisfy the filter;
• define a discovery job based on the set of services;
• instruct a remote discovery server to execute the discovery job to discover the set of services on a client network, and, in response, receive configuration item (CI) data related to the services from the discovery server;
• and
• update the services table using the CI data.