Common discovery enablement scenarios

This page provides high-level instructions on how to set up your discovery scan configuration for common organization-level enablement scenarios.

For information about how to create or edit a scan configuration, see Manage scan configurations.

Profile data in an entire organization except for select projects

You can turn on discovery for an entire organization, excluding certain projects. This is useful, for example, if you want to use your organization-level discovery subscription for most—but not all—projects.

1. Create a scan configuration at the organization level.
2. In the scan configuration, add a schedule and specify filters that match only the projects that you don't want to profile.
3. In the Frequency tab, turn off Do profile this data.
4. Click Done.
5. Optional: You can add more schedules to specify how certain subsets of your organization data should be profiled. Any data that isn't specified in a schedule is profiled according to the Catch-all schedule.
6. Optional: If needed, edit the catch-all schedule.
7. Complete the rest of the scan configuration steps.

Profile select projects or data assets in an organization or folder

If you want to profile only a few projects or data assets across an organization or folder, follow these steps:

1. Create a scan configuration at the organization or folder level.
2. In the scan configuration, add a schedule and specify filters that match only the projects or assets that you want to profile.
3. Specify the frequency and conditions for profiling the data that you selected.
4. Click Done.
5. Specify that all other data in the organization or folder shouldn't be profiled:
   1. Go to Catch-all schedule, which is the last schedule in the Schedules list.
   2. Turn off Profile the resources that don't match any custom schedule.
6. Complete the rest of the scan configuration steps.