Discovery of virtualization environments

A computing system comprising:

• persistent storage containing a configuration management database (CMDB);
• and
• one or more processors configured to:
• receive a user input from an application interface on a user device;
• set, based on the user input, a discovery schedule associated with discovery of resources of a remote virtualization system;
• execute, based on the discovery schedule, a discovery pattern comprising a sequence of operations for discovery of the resources, wherein execution of the discovery pattern corresponds to querying a manager instance of the remote virtualization system through a set of one or more application programming interface (API) calls to an API associated with the manager instance;
• receive a response to the set of API calls from the manager instance, wherein the response comprises payload of information associated with the resources;
• and
• update, based on the response and in the CMDB, one or more configuration items (CIs) representing the resources.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a computing system, causes the computing system to execute operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving a user input from an application interface on a user device;
• setting, based on the user input, a discovery schedule associated with discovery of resources of a remote virtualization system;
• executing, based on the discovery schedule, a discovery pattern comprising a sequence of operations for discovery of the resources, wherein execution of the discovery pattern corresponds to querying a manager instance of the remote virtualization system through a set of one or more application programming interface (API) calls to an API associated with the manager instance;
• receiving a response to the set of API calls from the manager instance, wherein the response comprises payload of information associated with the resources;
• and
• updating, based on the response and in a configuration management database (CMDB), one or more configuration items (CIs) representing the resources.