Microsoft Azure data in Address Manager - BlueCat Integrity - 26.1.0

Address Manager Administration Guide
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en-US
Product name
BlueCat Integrity
Version
26.1.0

After configuring and running discovery for a Microsoft Azure system, Cloud Discovery & Visibility (CDV) will Azure infrastructure data into Address Manager.

Within Address Manager, CDV creates tags for blocks, networks, devices, IP addresses, views, zones, and resource records that it discovers to distinguish them from user-created resources. Azure Tag names and hierarchy are as follows:

  • CD&V (Tag group) > Azure (Tag) > Subscription name (Tag) > Resource Group name (Tag)

    Where "Subscription name" is the name of the Azure subscription under which the items were created, and "Resource Group name" is the name of the resource group where they were found.

Attention: If you update the name of a Configuration or View in Address Manager after you enable discovery and visibility jobs, CDV will no longer import Azure infrastructure changes into Address Manager. To import infrastructure changes into Address Manager with the changed configuration and view names, you must reconfigure the discovery and visibility jobs.
Note: In previous versions of CDV, only discovered block, network, and device resources were tagged, and these resources were tagged with the lowest tag of the hierarchy only. CDV 26.1 expands the range of tagged resources to include IP addresses, views, zones, and resource records. Additionally, resources discovered by CDV 26.1 are now tagged with all tags in the hierarchy. CDV 26.1 tags additional cloud resources (IP addresses, views, zones, and resource records) by default. This new tagging behaviour can be disabled using the Tag additional cloud resources panel on the Settings tab. For more information, refer to Configuring additional tagged resources.

Tagged device resources in Address Manager

During discovery and visibility, CDV assigns BlueCat Address Manager tags to the resources it has imported into Address Manager: Blocks, networks, and device resources like virtual machines, load balancers, private endpoints, and Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) instances. These appear in Address Manager under the CD&V group, within their Azure Subscription and Azure Resource Group.