AWS Application Discovery Service | Agentless Discovery

Question 1

Can I run agents in my EC2 instances?

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Answer 1

Yes. You can install the AWS Discovery Agents on your EC2 instances to perform discovery and report upon performance information, network connections, and running processes, just as for any other server.

Question 2

What does ‘agentless’ Application Discovery mean?

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Answer 2

‘Agentless’ means no software needs to be installed on each host to use Application Discovery. Simply install the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Connector as an OVA on VMware vCenter.

Question 3

What data does the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Connector capture?

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Answer 3

The AWS Application Discovery Agentless Connector is delivered as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) package that can be deployed to a VMware host. Once configured with credentials to connect to vCenter, the Discovery Connector collects VM inventory, configuration, and performance history such as CPU, memory, and disk usage and uploads it to Application Discovery Service data store.

Question 4

What operating systems does the agentless discovery support?

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Answer 4

Agentless discovery is OS agnostic. It collects information about VMware virtual machines regardless of the VM operating system.

Question 5

How is the data protected while in transit to AWS?

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Answer 5

The AWS Application Discovery Agentless Connector uses HTTPS/TLS to transmit data to the AWS Application Discovery Service. The AWS Application Agentless Discovery Connector can be operated in an offline test mode that writes data to a local file so customers can review collected data before enabling online mode.

Question 6

How do I install the Application Discovery Agentless Connector in my data center?

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Answer 6

Please refer to the documentation for details on how to install the AWS Agentless Application Discovery Connector.

Question 7

How can I start the data collection?

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Answer 7

Data collection can be enabled or disabled from the AWS console or via the AWS Discovery SDK or AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Newly installed Connectors have data collection initially disabled when installed.

Question 8

Will the AWS Application Discovery Agentless Connector grant AWS remote access to my data center servers?

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Answer 8

No, the AWS Agentless Connector deployed on your VMware environment will not grant AWS remote access to your data center servers. However, the Agentless Connector requires VMware credentials in order to collect data. These credentials reside locally and are never shared with AWS. The Agentless Connector establishes outbound SSL connection to transfer only the collected data.