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 detailed information about how to create or edit a scan configuration at the organization or folder level, see Profile data in an organization or folder.

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.

Note: An excluded project can still be profiled through a scan configuration with a different scope, like a project-level scan configuration.

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 Profile the tables.
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 will be profiled according to the default schedule.
6. Optional: If needed, edit the default 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. Edit the schedule that is labeled Default schedule. All scan configurations have a default schedule. The default schedule is always the last schedule in the Schedules list.
   2. In the Frequency tab, turn off Profile the tables.
   3. Click Done.
6. Complete the rest of the scan configuration steps.