Abstract: A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium is described in which discovery job instructions initiate a discovery job to discover target configuration items associated with a target business service in an information technology infrastructure. The storage medium comprises scoping instructions to, for a first configuration item and in response to a first stop condition not existing, designate the first configuration item as one of the target configuration items and continue the discovery job from the first configuration item to a second configuration item; and for the second configuration item and in response to the first stop condition or a second stop condition existing, stop the discovery job from proceeding from the second configuration item to a third configuration item.

Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to dependency mapping instructions to identify a plurality of service provider instances, identify a plurality of consumer instances, determine, according to a correlation between a configuration setting for each of the service provider instances and a configuration file for each of the plurality of consumer instances, whether one of the plurality of consumer instances is dependent on one of the plurality of service provider instances, and update a dependency map comprising the dependency of the one of the plurality of consumer instances on the one of the plurality of service provider instances.

Abstract: A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium is described in which discovery job instructions initiate a discovery job to discover target configuration items associated with a target business service in an information technology infrastructure. The storage medium comprises scoping instructions to, for a first configuration item and in response to a first stop condition not existing, designate the first configuration item as one of the target configuration items and continue the discovery job from the first configuration item to a second configuration item; and for the second configuration item and in response to the first stop condition or a second stop condition existing, stop the discovery job from proceeding from the second configuration item to a third configuration item.