In the Discovery Options section of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Setup page, you configure the information that you want to import from the GCP infrastructure and how you want to import it.
Discover GCP Resources options
Field/Option | Description |
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GCP VPC/Subnets | Select this option to import all GCP private VPC and subnet address
space information. The private VPCs and subnets are imported into
address Manager as IPv4 blocks and Networks. Secondary IPv4 ranges are
imported into Address Manager as Networks and Address Spaces. Note:
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GCP Public IP Ranges | Select this checkbox to imports the GCP public address
space information of virtual machines and load balancers within the
region. The public IP ranges are converted into IPv4 and IPv6 blocks and
networks on Address Manager. Note: When this option is unchecked, the
virtual machine and load balancer information is still imported into
Address Manager; however, the IP ADDRESSES of
Public virtual machine and load balancer devices within
Address Manager will be blank.
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GCP VM Instances | Select this checkbox to import all VM instance information. The VM instances are converted into devices on Address Manager. Secondary IPv4 ranges are imported into Address Manager as Networks and Address Spaces. |
GCP Load Balancers | Select this checkbox to import all load balancer
instance information. The load balancer instances are converted into
devices on Address Manager. Note: This option
supports only importing of VM Instances and VM Instance
Groups.
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GCP Cloud DNS (Private Zones) | Select this checkbox to import all private DNS zone record information. The DNS zone records are converted to private DNS records on Address Manager. |
GCP Cloud DNS (Public Zones) | Select this checkbox to import all public DNS zone record information. The DNS zone records are converted to public DNS records on Address Manager. |
GCP Kubernetes Engine | Select this checkbox to import all GCP Kubernetes Engine (GKE) resources, including Clusters and Node pools. The GCP Kubernetes Clusters are converted into device types on Address Manager and Nodegroups are converted into tags. |
GCP Private Endpoints Endpoint View |
Select this checkbox to import private endpoint DNS
record information. The private endpoints are converted into private
endpoint DNS records on Address Manager with the prefix defined in the
BlueCat Target Zone field. Also, in Endpoint View, enter the name of the view that will be created in Address Manager; or select an existing view in Address Manager that will contain the GCP private endpoint information. Note: If you select a configuration that already exists in Address
Manager, all views within that configuration are populated in
this field.
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GCP DNS Hostnames - Internal DNS Hostname Internal View |
Select this checkbox to import internal DNS record
information. The internal DNS records are converted into internal DNS
records on Address Manager with the prefix defined in the
BlueCat Target Zone field. Also, in
DNS Hostname Internal View, enter the
name of the view that will be created in Address Manager or select
an existing view in Address Manager that will contain the internal
GCP-provided name resolution information.
Note: If you select a
configuration that already exists in Address Manager, all views
within that configuration are populated in this
field.
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GCP DNS Hostnames - External DNS Hostname External View |
Select this checkbox to import external DNS record information. The
external DNS records are converted into external DNS records on Address
Manager with the prefix defined in the BlueCat Target
Zone field. In DNS Hostname External
View, enter the name of the view that will be
created in Address Manager or select an existing view in Address
Manager that will contain the external GCP provided name resolution
information.
Note: If you select a configuration that already
exists in Address Manager, all views within that configuration
are populated in this field.
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Dynamic Update of DNS Resource Records | This option is available only when connecting to Address Manager v9.4.0 or later. Select this checkbox to update the DNS records in Address Manager and automatically deploy the changes to the primary BDDS of that zone using selective deployment. This checkbox is disabled by default and available only if you select the Enable Visibility after Discovery checkbox. Attention: You
must perform a full DNS deployment to the managed BDDS before any
subsequent selective deployments can be performed.
If you configure the managed BDDS to manage the cloud infrastructure exclusively, you can perform a discovery job to import the cloud infrastructure into your Address Manager. After view and zone information are successfully imported into Address Manager, you can configure primary and secondary DNS roles for the selected managed BDDS and perform a full DNS deployment. Once the DNS data is deployed to the managed BDDS, you can enable the visibility job to continuously monitor changes to your cloud DNS infrastructure and selectively deploy those changes to the managed BDDS. |
BlueCat Target Zone options
Field/Option | Description |
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BlueCat Target Zone | Enter the name of the DNS zone on Address Manager that will contain the VM instance of DNS records. |
Auto Create Zones | Select this checkbox to embed GCP projects for VM Instances and GCP project names for Load Balancers into the Provided Name Resolution. |
Other options
Field/Option | Description |
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Remove Deleted Resources (Tag Deleted Views/Zones during Rediscovery) |
Select this checkbox to automatically delete resources (except for DNS Views and Zones) that currently exist in Address Manager, but were not found upon rediscovery. Missing View and Zone resources will be tagged for manual inspection and removal. For more details on viewing and manually deleting these tagged resources, see Deleting resources flagged as missing during rediscovery. |
Dynamic Update of DNS Resource Records |
This option is available only when connecting to Address Manager v9.4.0 or later. Select this checkbox to update the DNS records in Address Manager and automatically deploy the changes to the primary BDDS of that zone using selective deployment. This checkbox is disabled by default and available only if you select the Enable Visibility after Discovery checkbox. Attention: You must perform a full DNS deployment to the
managed BDDS before any subsequent selective deployments can be
performed.
If you configure the managed BDDS to manage the cloud infrastructure exclusively, you can perform a discovery job to import the cloud infrastructure into your Address Manager. After view and zone information are successfully imported into Address Manager, you can configure primary and secondary DNS roles for the selected managed BDDS and perform a full DNS deployment. Once the DNS data is deployed to the managed BDDS, you can enable the visibility job to continuously monitor changes to your cloud DNS infrastructure and selectively deploy those changes to the managed BDDS. |