AWS Application Discovery Service | Discovered Data

Question 1

Can I run agentless discovery in my EC2 instances?

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Answer 1

No. The AWS Agentless Discovery Connector installs on VMware and collects information only from VMware vCenter.

Question 2

What kind of information is captured by AWS Application Discovery Service?

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Answer 2

AWS Application Discovery Service is designed to capture a variety of data including static configuration such as server hostnames, IP addresses, MAC addresses, CPU allocation, network throughput, memory allocation, disk resource allocations, DNS servers. It also captures resource utilization metrics such as CPU usage and memory usage. In addition, the AWS Application Discovery Agent can help determine server workloads and network relationships by identifying network connections between systems.

Question 3

Does this service capture any storage metrics?

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Answer 3

Yes, disk metrics, such as read and write volume, throughout, allocated/provisioned and utilized capacity, are captured by this service.

Question 4

How often is the information within AWS Application Discovery Service updated?

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Answer 4

Information is gathered only when the AWS Application Discovery Agent or the Agentless Discovery Connector is online.

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Question 5

Can I ingest data into the AWS Application Discovery Service from my existing configuration management database (CMDB)?

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Answer 5

No, this capability is not supported.