27.4 Discovering Accounts

Discovery is scanning all the configured systems and identifying the accounts in the target systems. Before you initiate discovery, this tool allows you to select the target systems from which the accounts must be discovered. For example, you can choose to discover accounts only from the servers in the domain. After you choose the target systems, the accounts are discovered and the reports are available for you to download.

Privileged Account Sniffer preserves the reports of the previously run discovery. These reports are overwritten when you run discovery. Hence, if you want the previously ran reports, you must download the reports before initiating discovery.

To review the target systems and initiate the discovery of accounts, perform the following:

  1. Click Discover.

  2. Select the required target systems from which the accounts must be discovered.

  3. (Conditional) If you want to add any new target system, click + of the appropriate target system.

  4. Click Run Discovery.

    The tool discovers accounts on the selected target systems and displays a high level discovery details, such as total number of accounts discovered, number of target systems on which account discovery failed and so on.

  5. Click Download Report to download the generated report.

    To further refine the reports data and download the report, click Filter Reports and Download.