AWS by Web Services Job

This section includes:

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Discovery Flow

Discovering AWS, there is no IP address to trigger on, so the job starts against a probe where there is at least one IP address in the range. (This is a UCMDB work flow requirement.)

Before exploring any service, UCMDB needs to take information about the account the discovery user belongs to. This is done using IAM service; the user has an ARN (Amazon Resource Name) where the account ID is stored.

EC2 Service Discovery

Get Regions and availability zones
Get running instances; without this information all EBS discovery fails
Get detailed information about EBS which is used as mapped devices for each running instance
Get EBS Snapshot information for mapped EBS only
Get AMI for each running instance; if AMI is not found, the corresponding instances are not reported to UCMDB
Get Elastic IP information for each instance
Data is immediately reported to UCMDB after discovery of each service

ECR Service Discovery

Get Images used by Containers
Get Repositories
Link Images to Repositories that Images belong to
Data is immediately reported to UCMDB after discovery of each service

ECS Service Discovery

Get Task Definitions
Get Clusters
Get Services, Tasks, and EC2 Instances in Cluster
Get Containers in Task, and link them to the EC2 Instance that they belong to
Data is immediately reported to UCMDB after discovery of each service

ELB Service Discovery

Get Classic Load Balancer and Application Load Balancer
Get related listener and target group
Get EC2 from listener or target group
Link Load Balancer with listener and EC2 instances (EC2 instances are in running status and with AMI available)
Data is immediately reported to UCMDB after discovery of each service

S3 Bucket Service Discovery

Get S3 Buckets
Get S3 Bucket Region
Get S3 Bucket Versioning Status
Get S3 Bucket Replication Status
Data is immediately reported to UCMDB after discovery of each service

RDS Service Discovery

Get database instances; without this information all RDS discovery fails
Get all available engines to enrich information for every database instance server
Get security and parameter groups to enrich available information in database instances
Get database snapshots
Data is immediately reported to UCMDB after discovery of each service