While editing a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Schedule manager or Visibility manager (that is, Discovery or Visibility jobs), GCP Discovery options let you specify in detail the information that Cloud Discovery & Visibility (CDV) imports from the GCP infrastructure.
While setting up a new discovery, these settings are available only if you choose Advanced setup. If you use Basic setup, CDV chooses a set of default Discovery options.
Discover GCP Resources options
| Field/Option | Description |
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| GCP VPC/subnets | Tick this checkbox 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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| Allocate GCP reserved IP addresses | Tick this checkbox to import IPv4 addresses reserved by the GCP platform in each subnet range. GCP reserves the first two and last two IP addresses of each subnet. Within Address Manager, reserved IP addresses are stored as IP addresses with corresponding types in a BlueCat Address Manager (BAM) network. |
| GCP Public IP Ranges | Tick this checkbox to import 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 unticked, 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 Private Endpoints Endpoint view |
Tick this checkbox to import private endpoint DNS record information. Private endpoints are converted into private endpoint DNS records on Address Manager, with the prefix defined in the BlueCat target zone field. Ticking this checkbox enables the Endpoint view field. 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 VM instances | Tick 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 | Tick 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 DNS hostnames - Internal DNS hostname internal view |
Tick GCP DNS hostnames - internal 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. In DNS hostname internal view (available only
if GCP DNS hostnames - internal is ticked), 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 |
Tick 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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| GCP Cloud DNS (public zones) | Tick this checkbox to import all public DNS zone record information. The DNS zone records are converted to public DNS records on Address Manager. |
| GCP Cloud DNS (private zones) | Tick this checkbox to import all private DNS zone record information. The DNS zone records are converted to private DNS records on Address Manager. |
| Skip creating default internal zone | If ticked, CDV skips creation of the default internal zones for VM instances. |
GCP Kubernetes options
| Field/Option | Description |
|---|---|
| GCP Kubernetes Engine | Tick 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 internal resources within Kubernetes engine |
(Available only if GCP Kubernetes Engine is ticked.) Tick this checkbox to also discover Kubernetes pods and services within GCP Kubernetes Engine (GKE) resources. CDV will also create a new Configuration for each Kubernetes cluster to hold that cluster's pods and services. DNS records of pods and services are imported as DNS records in Address Manager. |
| Kubernetes view |
(Available only if GCP internal resources within Kubernetes engine is ticked.) Select the Address Manager View that will contain the discovered GKE resources. To use the default View name, select GCP Kubernetes View. |
Address Manager target zone options
| Field/Option | Description |
|---|---|
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Target zone for private endpoints Auto create zones for private endpoints |
(Available only if GCP private endpoints is ticked.) In Target zone for private endpoints, enter the name of the DNS zone on BAM that will contain resource records from private endpoints. CDV will create a zone in BAM based on the entered zone name. Tick the Auto create zones for private endpoints checkbox to create separate subzones for each private endpoint region under the specified Target Zone for Private Endpoints. If cleared, information will be stored in a single zone. |
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Target zone for VM instances Auto create zones for VM instances |
(Available only if GCP VM instances is ticked.) In Target Zone for VM instances, enter the name of the DNS zone on BAM that will contain the VM instance of DNS records. Tick the Auto Create Zones for VM instances checkbox to embed GCP projects for VM Instances and GCP project names for Load Balancers into the provided name resolution.. Clear the checkbox otherwise. |
| Remove deleted resources (tag deleted views/zones during rediscovery) |
Tick 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. |
| Remove deleted resources (tag deleted views/zones during rediscovery) |
Tick 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. Note: If you are using Scheduled discovery to monitor
networks for further changes (specified in the job's Monitoring
options), this option is automatically ticked and cannot be
changed.
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| Remove IP and MAC addresses of deleted devices |
(This option is available only when connecting to Address Manager v9.4.0 or later.) Tick this checkbox to automatically delete IP addresses if (and only if) they are not associated with any other host records (such as manually-created host records pointing to the device's IP address). CDV will also delete MAC addresses if (and only if) they are not linked to any other IP addresses (such as IP addresses that do not belong to a deleted device). |
| Update existing blocks/networks in Address Manager | If ticked, if imported device, view, and zone resources have the same name as existing resources in Address Manager, CDV will try to reuse blocks and networks that already exist in Address Manager instead of dropping (not importing) the duplicate resources. |
| 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 only available if you select Real time updates as your Monitoring mode. Attention:
You must perform a full DNS deployment to the managed BDDS before any subsequent selective deployments can be performed. If you are configuring the managed BDDS to exclusively manage the cloud infrastructure, you can run a Discovery to import the cloud infrastructure into your Address Manager.
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