Key questions about this property
The answers below summarize the purpose, scope, default effect, and review scenarios for this property.
| What does it do? |
This property determines whether Discovery utilizes the CMDB Identification and Reconciliation Framework or the legacy identifiers from previous releases. |
| What area does it affect? |
Discovery Identification and Reconciliation |
| What does the default mean? |
The default value is "true", which means this behavior is enabled by default. |
| When should you review it? |
Review this property when updating Discovery configurations or troubleshooting identification issues. |
Out of the box property record
Raw metadata from the property record.
| Property name |
glide.discovery.use_cmdb_identifiers |
| Sys ID |
86b227e2c3373100d8d4bea192d3ae7a |
| Type |
boolean |
| Application |
Global |
| Default value |
true |
| Description |
<b>CMDB Identifiers:</b> If "yes", identification and reconciliation will be handled by the CMDB API instead of through the old Discovery implementation. |
| Updated |
2015-07-31 16:28:17 |
Sources
Official references and nearby text excerpts where this property appears.
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Snippet 1
... set to true, Discovery won’t populate software for computer CIs also managed by SCCM. • Type: true | false • Default value: false • Learn More: Discovery and SCCM together glide.discovery.use_cmdb_identifiers CMDB Identifiers: If set to true, identification and reconciliation will be handled by the CMDB API instead of through the old Discovery implementation. © 2026 ServiceNow, Inc. All rights reserved. ...
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Snippet 2
... 100 records at a time in the table are batched and updated. By setting this property to 1, this switches to sequential updates. • Type: integer • Default value: 100 glide.discovery.use_cmdb_identifiers Controls whether Discovery uses the CMDB Identification and Reconciliation Framework (introduced with the Geneva release) or the legacy identifiers from previous releases. • Type: true | false • Default value: ...
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