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title: Command List form for pattern-based discovery
description: The Command List form contains all commands used in discovery by infrastructure or application type patterns.
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# Command List form for pattern-based discovery

The **Command List** form contains all commands used in discovery by infrastructure or application type patterns.

For information on viewing a list of commands used by a pattern, see [View Patterns commands through the Discovery Patterns module](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery/view-command-pattern-discovery.md)and [View Patterns commands through the Command List module](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery/view-pattern-command-in-command-list.md).

<table id="table_brg_3yh_fwb"><thead><tr><th>

Attribute

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Applicable OS Class

</td><td>

The command is intended to run on this OS class.

</td></tr><tr><td>

CI Type

</td><td>

The pattern that contains this command is assigned to this CI type. **Note:** Some ServiceNow applications refer to CI types as CI classes.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Command

</td><td>

The discovery command.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Command Type

</td><td>

Type of command:-   **Shell Command**
-   **WMI Query**
-   **SNMP Query** \(Tabular and Scalar\)
-   **SNMP Walk**
-   **HTTP GET** \(for Basic Authentication credentials, not Token\)

</td></tr><tr><td>

Is Failover Step

</td><td>

This command is used in a failover step inside a pattern. Possible values are true or false.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Outdated

</td><td>

This field is for internal use. Possible values are true or false.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Pattern

</td><td>

The command is part of this discovery pattern.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Step name

</td><td>

Name of the step that contains this command.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Domain

</td><td>

The command is validated for discovering CIs in this domain. This field is applicable for domain-separated environment.

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>**Parent Topic:**[Discovery reference](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-operations-management/discovery/discovery-references.md)

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