GCP job settings: Configuration options - Adaptive Applications - BlueCat Gateway - 25.3

Cloud Discovery & Visibility Administration Guide
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BlueCat Gateway
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25.3

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.

Important: Configuration options are available only when creating a new Discovery job. You cannot update them later.

You can select from three Configuration modes for Configuration creation conventions:

  • 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.

Address Manager user

Field/Option Description

Address Manager username

Address Manager password

 In Address Manager username, enter the username for the user that CDV should use when logging into Address Manager.
Note: This user should be an Address Manager administrative API user with full permissions. Without administrative access, CDV will not be able to create all objects in Address Manager to model discovered cloud data.
In the Address Manager Password field, enter the password for the specified user.

BlueCat Configuration Mode settings

Field/Option Description
BlueCat Configuration Mode

Select the Configuration mode for the Configuration creation convention that you want to use:

  • Default: CDV creates separate Address Manager configurations for each project.

  • 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.

  • 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.
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.

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:

  • If you selected Scheduled Updates in the GCP Monitoring Options, this checkbox is automatically selected and cannot be changed.

    Note: When performing discovery on Google Kubernetes Engines (GKEs), resource information about GKEs and pods and services within a GKE are always dropped if they are associated with an overlapping network.

  • When you tick Override configuration, CDV will update the Configuration in Address Manager that was previously created by CDV.