AWS job settings: Monitoring Options - Adaptive Applications - BlueCat Gateway - 25.3

Cloud Discovery & Visibility Administration Guide
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en-US
Product name
BlueCat Gateway
Version
25.3

While editing an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Discovery or Visibility, Monitoring options let you configure monitoring settings for importing subsequent data into Address Manager. Here, you configure how you want Cloud Discovery & Visibility (CDV) to make changes in network data visible for further monitoring after discovery for that Schedule manager or Visibility manager is finished — essentially, which of Discovery or Visibility you want to use for the specified network infrastructure.

Attention: AWS Visibility functionality imports only incremental EC2 changes to Address Manager.

You can choose from two monitoring modes: Scheduled updates and Real time updates (Visibility).

Scheduled updates (scheduled discovery)

When you use the Scheduled updates monitoring mode, CDV creates a scheduled discovery of AWS resources, based on configuration settings in the Discovery options section. CDV will re-run the scheduled discovery at the configured interval, monitoring changes made to AWS resources.

Attention: When you select Scheduled updates, the Discovery option Remove deleted resources during rediscovery and the Configuration option Override configuration are automatically ticked and cannot be changed. This helps avoid failures during subsequent Scheduled discovery jobs. For more details, see AWS job settings: Discovery options and AWS job settings: Configuration Options.

When using Scheduled updates, you can configure the following options:

Schedule options

Field/Option Description
Run Once

If ticked, CDV runs discovery on AWS resources a single time, based on the configuration settings in the Discovery options section.

Effectively, this option disables further monitoring for this job.

Tip: To instead run this discovery configuration multiple times at regular intervals, simply uncheck this checkbox and enter the desired interval in the Interval field.
Interval

(Available only if Run once is cleared.)

The interval time between discoveries. The interval indicates the amount of time, in seconds, that Cloud Discovery & Visibility waits after the previous discovery finishes before starting the next discovery.

By default, this is 3600 (1 hour).

To run the discovery only once, select the Run Once checkbox.

Real time updates

When you use the Real time updates monitoring mode (also known as Visibility), CDV creates a visibility task to retrieve AWS resources based on the configuration settings in the Discovery Options section.

Note: The Real time visibility imports only incremental changes from VPC/Subnets, VM instance, Load Balancer, VPC network, cloud DNS (private zones), cloud DNS (public zones), private endpoint, and Kubernetes engine changes into Address Manager. Visibility for provided name resolution and public IP ranges is not supported.

You can configure the following options:

Field/Option Description
Override queue and notification default names

Tick the Override Queue and Notification Default Names checkbox to specify custom queue and notification names to be created in the cloud where you have specific naming requirements for those resources, instead of using the default generated names.

Selecting this checkbox displays the following fields:

  • SNS Topic Name: Enter the name of the SNS (Simple Notification Service) Topic that will be used by the visibility service to notify services when resources have been changed or added.

    The name can have up to 256 characters using letters, numbers, hyphens ("-"), and underscores ("_").

  • SQS Name: Enter the name of the SQS (Simple Queue Service) that will be used by the visibility service to store messages of changes that have occurred in your AWS environment.

    The name can have up to 80 characters using letters, numbers, hyphens ("-"), and underscores ("_").

  • EventBridge Rule Name: Enter the name of the EventBridge Rule that will be used by the visibility service to retrieve data from the queue containing changes that occurred in your AWS resources.

    This name must satisfy EventBridge rules for Rule names: It can have up to 64 characters using letters, numbers, periods ("."), hyphens ("-"), and underscores ("_").

If you enter a name that already exists in the resource group, you'll be asked if you want to reuse the same name. Click Cancel (and choose a different name) if you think your Visibility jobs will affect other Visibility jobs using the same name. Click Reuse to confirm use of the same name (that is, if you're sure that your jobs will not impact other Visibility jobs with the same name).

Attention:

When overriding queue and notification default names:

  • If you reuse the existing EventBridge Rule name, any changes in the event pattern will update it within your AWS environment. If you do not have permissions to update the EventBridge Rule name, contact your administrator to modify it to the existing Event Grid Subscription name.

  • The filter will update if you modify any Discovery Options within the same Visibility job.

  • If errors occur due to modifications of the filter, older information will be used and the following error appears:



  • To avoid conflicts, do not use the same SQS names in multiple Visibility jobs. As a best practice, do not reuse names of an SNS Topic, SQS name, or EventBridge Rule that you do not own or control.