The Monitoring Options section of the Microsoft Azure Setup page lets you configure monitoring settings for importing changes to network resource data into Address Manager. Here, you configure what network data you want made visible for monitoring, and how you want to look for it.
You can choose from two monitoring options:
Scheduled Discovery: Cloud Discovery & Visibility (CDV) performs discovery and rediscovery jobs on Azure resources at specified times and intervals. Discovery parameters are based on those defined in the Discovery Options section.
Attention: When you select Scheduled Discovery, CDV also selects the Remove Deleted Resources during Rediscovery Discovery option and the Override Configuration Configuration option (which is also disabled to prevent users from clearing it). These selections are made to avoid failures during subsequent scheduled discovery jobs. For more details on these options, see Azure Discovery Options and Azure Configuration Options.Visibility: Cloud Discovery & Visibility creates visibility jobs and Visibility Managers to continuously monitor changes made to Azure resources, based on the configuration settings in the Discovery Options section.
Tip: A Visibility Manager is a collection of visibility jobs that were created during Discovery when the Azure Monitoring Options are set to Visibility. The jobs that a Visibility Manager contains depend on the subscription and/or resource groups that you specify in the Azure Credentials page. When you perform actions on a Visibility Manager (Start, Stop, and so on), CDV performs those actions on all jobs within that Visibility Manager. For more details, see About Azure Visibility jobs and Visibility managers.When using the Visibility option with Discovery jobs on an entire subscription (or on all subscriptions), CDV will also start new Discovery jobs for any new resource groups it finds.
Schedule Options
The Schedule Options section appears only if you select Scheduled Discovery as your monitoring option.
| Field/Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Run Once |
Cloud Discovery & Visibility runs discovery on Azure resources a single time, based on the configuration settings in the Discovery Options section. Tip: To instead run this discovery configuration multiple
times at regular intervals, simply clear this checkbox and enter the
desired interval in the Interval
field.
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| Interval | Enter the interval time between discovery jobs. The interval indicates the amount of time, in seconds, that Cloud Discovery & Visibility waits after the previous discovery job finishes before starting the next discovery job. |
Address Manager User options
| Field/Option | Description |
|---|---|
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Address Manager Username Address Manager Password |
The account details for the user account that CDV should use for monitoring the Azure network. By default, the Address Manager Username
field is populated with the current user that is logged into
Gateway. If required, you can update the username to another
Address Manager user.
Note: This user should be an Address
Manager administrative API user with full
permissions.
In the Address Manager
Password field, enter the password for the
Address Manager user. |
Visibility System Locations options
The Visibility System Locations section appears only if you select Visbility as your monitoring option.
The method that CDV uses to choose the resource group required to set up CDV's Service Bus and Event Grid resources when running CDV on all resource groups in all subscriptions.
This can be the following:
Default: You specify the resource group individually for each existing subscription. The first valid resource group will be used for new subscriptions that were added since the last discovery or visibility job.
CDV will list the available subscriptions and let you select the resource group for each one.
Custom: You specify a single resource group to use for all subscriptions. When performing visibility on all subscriptions (or all resource groups for a subscription), CDV will use the specified resource group. If the resource group doesn't exist, CDV will create it if it has permissions (and fail otherwise).
You can select or enter the resource group in the Specify Resource Group field. This field is available only if CDV has access to the Azure system.
Note: This feature requires users to have the following permissions:Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/write Microsoft.Resources/subscriptions/resourceGroups/read
| Field/Option | Description |
|---|---|
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Address Manager Username Address Manager Password |
The Address Manager Username field is populated with the current user that is logged into Gateway. If required, you can update the username to another Address Manager user. Note: This user should be an Address Manager administrative API user
with full permissions.
In the Address Manager Password field, enter the password for the Address Manager user. |
Other options
| Field/Option | Description |
|---|---|
Override Queue and Notification Default Names Service Bus Namespace Name Service Bus Queue Name Event Grid Subscription Name |
(These fields do not appear for jobs that apply to All Subscriptions.) Select 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:
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:
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