POP Scheduler Management

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  • Published on Jul 6, 2025
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Scheduled Discovery Overview

The POP Management Scheduler helps maintain synchronization between PlainID and connected vendor systems by automating Discovery operations. It ensures continuous visibility and policy consistency with minimal manual effort.

Scheduled Discovery automatically retrieves the current state of your vendor system at predefined regular intervals, which includes Policies and related objects. Scheduled Discovery keeps PlainID in sync with the vendor platform, reduces the need for manual discovery, and ensures ongoing visibility and up-to-date information in the Authorization Workspace.

Scheduled Discovery Intervals

When Scheduled Discovery is enabled, a Discovery operation runs automatically at a predefined interval (e.g., every 1, 2, 4, 6, up to 24 hours). To improve overall system performance and prevent activity spikes

  • The first Discovery will run randomly within your predefined time interval.
  • Future Discoveries will continue to run at your defined interval, relative to the time of the first run with an additional time range of up to 10 minutes.
    • To provide full visibility into scheduling, the exact Scheduled Discovery time is displayed in both the POP Scheduler panel and the Orchestration Workspace.
  • Manual Discovery remains available at any time in the UI and through our APIs and does not interfere with the scheduled process.

Enabling Scheduled Discovery

Before enabling this feature, ensure that you have already set up an Orchestration Workspace and a POP. If you do not have either, refer to Creating a New Workspace and Managing POPs.

To enable Scheduled Discovery:

  1. Open the PlainID Platform.
  2. Open your Orchestration Workspace.
  3. Click the three dots on the POP card for which you want to schedule Discovery.
  4. Select Scheduler.
  5. A panel labeled POP Scheduler opens. Under Scheduled Discovery, select Yes to enable the capability.
  6. In the Discovery Interval dropdown, select the desired interval time.
  7. Click Save.

Scheduled Discovery keeps PlainID aligned with your vendor systems by automatically retrieving data at set intervals, reducing manual effort and ensuring up-to-date visibility in the Authorization Workspace.