Windows Discovery FAQs 

All the discovery related concepts are explained in details. It is useful to read them before the FAQs

1. What privileges user need for discovery?

• Ans:
  • Please refer link for the list of privileges.Unless and until the priviledges are satisfied, the discovery will not start.

2. Is x-ray supported on Windows?

• Ans:
  • X-ray is not supported on Windows.

3. How can my servers in the datacenter be accessed from the CH SAAS portal?

• Ans:
  • CH SaaS portal connects to windows hosts over network ( secure winrm). One need to open up the external firewall and allow the port forwarding for CH Saas portal to reach to the hosts on internal network.

4. What tools does OmniDeq install on my system? Are they cleaned up?

• Ans:
  • OmniDeq installs a proprietry discovery tool on the host to be discovered. The binaries are not removed after the discovery as the same set of binaries are required during the transform phase.

5. Which ports should be open for windows?

• Ans:
  • port 5986 should be open on windows host for secure communication using WinRM

6. Is a powershell remote enable necessary?

• Ans:
  • Yes, PS Remoting should be enabled.

7. How to tackle with Timeout errors during windows discovery?

• Ans:
  • Check following things:
  • Verify that firewall is not blocking winRM ports
  • WinRM service is running
  • (To check WinRM running use command as “(Get-service -Name winrm).status“

8. Is the user required administrator rights?

• Ans:
  • Yes, It should have added in administrator group.

9. Is Native Dot Net application can be containerized ?

• Ans:
  • No, only Dot Net apps behind IIS are supported for containerization using OmniDeq.