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Discovering One Windows Server

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In this lesson, you will learn:

  • How a Windows server is discovered
  • What a Windows server CI contains
  • What to check

🔁 Quick look back: Last time: Verifying the Linux CI and Relationships in the CMDB. You learned how to check the CI a scan updated.

1 The Problem: Windows Uses a Different Path

Linux worked. Windows uses different protocols, credentials and MID Server rules. So:

  • A Linux success doesn’t prove Windows will work.

🎯 The problem: Windows uses a different path, so it needs its own first test.

👉 The fix: Discover one known Windows server before any Windows range.

Compare Linux and Windows CIs.
Figure 1. What’s different about a Windows server CI.

2 The Windows path

  • The MID Server must be on Windows.
  • It connects over WMI or PowerShell (WinRM).
  • It uses SNWR Windows Discovery.
  • The Windows classifier and pattern run.

3 What to check

  • Class: Windows Server.
  • OS edition and version.
  • Installed software, including IIS.
  • Serial number and network adapters.

4 Project Clear View: How We Implemented It

📍 Situation: Linux was proven. Windows was next.

🧭 Decision: Run Quick Discovery on snwr-app-01 and check the CI.

🛠️ Steps we took:

  1. Ran Quick Discovery on 10.10.10.40 from snwr-mid-test-01.
  2. Watched it use PowerShell over WinRM.
  3. Checked the Windows Server CI and IIS relationship.
  4. Used the first-device checklist.

✅ What we verified:

  • Completed with no errors.
  • IIS appears with a Runs on link to snwr-app-01.

📁 Evidence: The Windows first-device check, saved for gate 4.

5 Quick recap

  • Windows needs its own first test.
  • It uses a Windows MID Server and WMI or PowerShell.
  • Check class, OS, software, serial and adapters.
  • Use the same first-device checklist.

6 Check yourself

Think of your answer first. Then tap to check.

1 Why test Windows separately from Linux? Show answer

It uses different protocols, credentials and MID Server rules.

2 Which protocol did snwr-app-01 use? Show answer

PowerShell over WinRM.

3 Which application was linked to snwr-app-01? Show answer

IIS.

Nice work! Windows discovery works at SNWR. 🎉
Next up: Discovering One Network Device

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