Activating Data Discovery

The application installs Data Discovery and related ServiceNow® Store applications and plugins if they aren't already installed.

Before you begin

Data discovery requires a separate subscription from the rest of the ServiceNow AI Platform.

To purchase a subscription, contact your ServiceNow account manager. When you purchase a subscription, certain plugins are activated automatically. If a paid plugin isn't activated automatically, you can manually activate it from the All Applications list in your instance.

Note:

Before purchasing a subscription, you can evaluate the feature on a non-production instance without charge by requesting it from the Now Support Service Catalog.

Installing the Data Discovery Store App will auto install the Data Discovery APIs plugin

Role required: admin

About this task

The following items are installed with data discovery:

• Roles
• Tables

For more information on the roles and tables installed, see Data Discovery roles and Default regular expression data patterns.

Procedure

1. Navigate to All > System Applications > All Available Applications > All.

2. Find the Data Discovery plugin (sn_data_discovery) using the filter criteria and search bar.

   You can search for the plugin by its name or ID. If you cannot find a plugin, you might have to request it from ServiceNow personnel.

3. Select Install to start the installation process.

   Note: When domain separation and delegated admin are enabled in an instance, the administrative user must be in the global domain. Otherwise, the following error appears: Application installation is unavailable because another operation is running: Plugin Activation for <plugin name>.

   You will see a message after installation is completed. For information about the components installed with a plugin, see Find components installed with an application.