While editing a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Discovery or Visibility job, Configuration Options settings let you specify how Cloud Discovery & Visibility (CDV) creates BlueCat Address Manager Configurations when importing discovered AWS infrastructure resources. You will see these settings when updating Discovery or Visibility, or when creating a new Discovery or Visibility.
You can select from three Configuration modes for Configuration creation conventions:
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Default: CDV creates separate Address Manager configurations for each project.
General configurations will be named:
<GCP Project ID>Overlap configurations will be named:
<GCP Project ID>/<VPC name overlap> -
Custom: CDV creates separate Address Manager configurations for each project. Configuration names will incorporate a custom name that you enter in the BlueCat Configuration field.
General configurations will be named:
<Custom BlueCat Configuration name>/<GCP Project ID>Overlap configurations will be named:
<Custom BlueCat Configuration name>/<GCP Project ID>/<VPC name overlap> -
Combined: CDV combines resource information from all resource groups into a single Address Manager configuration, with the custom name that you enter in the BlueCat Configuration field:
General configurations will be named:
<Custom BlueCat Configuration name>Overlap configurations will be named:
<Custom BlueCat Configuration name>/<GCP Project ID>/<VPC name overlap>
GCP Configuration options settings
The Configuration options settings for GCP infrastructures has the following settings.
BlueCat Configuration Mode settings
| Field/Option | Description |
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| BlueCat Configuration Mode |
Select the Configuration mode for the Configuration creation convention that you want to use:
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| BlueCat Configuration |
(Disabled if using the Default Configuration mode for Configuration names.) A customized name to use for BAM Configurations that will be created in BAM to hold information about the GCP infrastructure and its resources. When the Configuration mode is Custom or Combined, this field cannot be empty. Attention: Configuration names cannot contain forward
slash characters (
/). Doing so can cause issues
and errors with Discovery and Visibility of cloud
resources.Note: If you configure Cloud Discovery & Visibility to retrieve
data from a Resource group that has overlapping IP addresses in
the Virtual Network, CDV creates multiple Configurations in
Address Manager depending on the number of VPCs with overlapping
IP addresses.
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Create overlapping configuration settings
| Field/Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Create Overlapping Configuration |
Tick this checkbox to automatically create additional Address Manager Configurations for networks that overlap with those from different Discovery jobs within the same project. By default, this option is ticked. If cleared, CDV will mark all overlapping Configurations and their resources as Dropped, and they will not be imported into Address Manager. If an overlapping network is resolved in the cloud, resources in overlapping configurations will be imported back into the general Address Manager Configuration. Note: When performing discovery on Google Kubernetes Engines
(GKEs), resource information about GKEs (and internal
Kubernetes resources within GKEs) are always dropped
if they are associated with an overlapping network.
CAUTION: Regardless of the whether or not this checkbox is selected, overlapping networks will still be dropped under the following circumstances: When two discovery jobs are executed in consecutive order with the same Address Manager Configuration name, and they are discovering VPCs in those two different projects. When this occurs, in the Discovery tab, CDV displays an exclamation icon next to the Completed status of the discovery job, indicating that VPCs have been dropped. |
| Override configuration |
Tick this checkbox to override Configurations in Address Manager based on the information in BlueCat Configuration. Note:
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