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title: Introduction
slug: discovery-app-req-guide/introduction
createdAt: 2026-11-05T05:51:23.723Z
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# About This Document

This document provides the information required to scope and size a Ivanti Neurons for Service Mapping Discovery application (DA) deployment.

It also provides a checklist of the system requirements to run the Discovery Application on customer-hosted servers, the firewall rules to allow communication between the DA and Ivanti Neurons for Service Mapping cloud instance, and the credential requirements for accurate asset discovery, configuration collection, application dependencies and inter-relationships.

This document is not a how-to-guide for implementing, configuring or troubleshooting Ivanti Neurons for Service Mapping Discovery Application installations.

## About Ivanti Neurons for Service Mapping

Ivanti Neurons for Service Mapping provides automatic inventory and configuration cataloging of computers, networks and storage assets – both on premise and on the cloud. The discovery process identifies physical and logical dependencies between applications and their host systems.

From there, enterprise services are easily mapped across all supporting infrastructure components and are viewable in the Ivanti Neurons for Service Mapping CMDB.

Ivanti Neurons for Service Mapping offers the ease of SaaS deployment and accessibility combined with the security and performance of on-premise discovery. The Discovery Application currently supports more than 140 agentless and extendable probes.

### Summary of Changes

This section records the history of significant changes to this document. Only the most significant changes are described here.

Table 1: Revision History

| Version | Date       | Description of change                                              |
| ------- | ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 3.2.0   | 05-08-2024 | Added architecture diagram, agent requirements, and subnet details |
| 3.2.1   | 06-28-2024 | Added proxy support configurations                                 |
| 3.3     | 09-23-2024 | Added additional credential types and details                      |
| 3.4     | 01-07.2024 | Fixed inaccurate references                                        |
| 3.5     | 02-12-2025 | Added SUDO notes to Unix, Linux, Mac, and Solaris                  |
| 3.6     | 02-24-2025 | Added MySQL requirements                                           |
| 3.7     | 11-24-2025 | Version 6.1 updates                                                |