Cloud Discovery

Traverse provides the ability to discover and monitor computer and storage resources as well as applications running within public cloud providers. Traverse supports now:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Services
• Azure Cloud Services

Cloud discovery sessions differ from typical network discovery sessions, because cloud instances are not necessarily networked with each other. The IP addresses for each cloud instance may be completely unrelated to each other. Cloud discovery uses an API request to return a list of the cloud instances currently available for a specified cloud user account.

Note: Due to migrating Azure services to the new deployment management model and some API changes Traverse currently supports discovery of cloud instances (SQL Instances/Virtual Machines/Load Balancers) only if the user is subscribed to the Microsoft.ClassicCompute resource provider.

Prerequisites

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Services
  • Identify the account on Amazon AWS Cloud Services you wish to monitor with Traverse.
  • Obtain the API access key and secret key pair for this AWS Cloud Services account. This is required to specify credentials that can access cloud instances in this cloud user account. For more information, see Managing Access Keys for IAM Users.
• Azure Cloud Services
  • To enable the Azure monitoring, update your Traverse license. To obtain the required license update, submit a request to technical support and update the license after the version upgrade.
  • Obtain an application secret key, application ID and tenant ID for this Azure Cloud Services account. This is required to specify credentials that can access cloud instances in this cloud user account.

Procedure

1. Navigate to the Administration > Discovery page.

• A list of existing Discovery sessions displays.

We have added icon with the link which redirects the user to the cloud discovery page.

1. Click the add icon, then click the Cloud Discovery icon.

   

The Create Cloud Instance page displays.

1. Enter the following

• Cloud Provider - Select Amazon Web Services or Azure Cloud Services .
• Cloud Instance Name - Enter a name for this cloud discovery session.
• Create In Organization - Select a organization.
• Create in Location - Select a location. The DGE extension at this location will perform the queries against Amazon.
• Scheduled Discovery -
  • Recurring - If selected, specify the number of hours to repeat cloud discovery.
  • One Time/Manual - If selected, cloud discovery is run only once.
• Enable Automation - If unchecked, cloud instances are discovered without taking further action on them. If checked, the following monitoring deployment options display.
  • For New/Activated Instances - Start Monitoring, Ignore & Log, Log Only
  • For Suspended/Stopped Instances - Suspend Monitoring, Ignore & Log, Log Only
  • For Deleted/Destroyed Instance - Remove Monitoring, Suspend Monitoring, Ignore & Log, Log Only

  Note: Leaving this checkbox off is recommended the first time cloud discovery is run on a cloud user account. This allows you to review the list of cloud instances created in a cloud user account before deciding whether to deploy monitoring options automatically.

• Click the Use Existing radio option, then select the credential you created in the Specify Login Credentials procedure above.
• Click the Discover Cloud Instance button.

Reviewing Cloud Discovery Results

Once cloud discovery has completed, the Cloud Discovery Result page displays. The page lists two sections.

• Discovered Cloud Instances - These are the new cloud instances that have been discovered since the last time cloud discovery was run. Selecting these discovered instances on this page will provision them for monitoring.
• Existing Cloud Instances - These are existing cloud instances that already have monitoring provisioned on them. Unselecting these instances will remove all monitors provisioned on these instances.

Click the Submit button to display the Manage Devices page.

Deploying Monitoring Tests on Cloud Instances

Using the Manage Devices page, monitoring tests are deployed on discovered cloud instances the same way monitoring tests are deployed on typical network devices. See Updating Multiple Tests about the details of working with this page.

Note: Changing the options on some discovered cloud instances is not allowed. The set of tests deployed on certain cloud instances is specified by a fixed device template.

Click the Submit button to deploy monitoring tests on selected cloud instances.

Viewing the Status of Cloud Instances

Navigate to the Status page to see the monitoring results returned from your cloud instances. Cloud instances display Status data the same as any other device.

We have added an icon with the link which will direct the user to the Cloud Discovery page.