AWS Host based discovery of VMs

[Shantanu1]

Hi Team!

I have a question regarding AWS discovery. We have configured AWS Service Account in the ServiceNow Platform and are able to perform the Discovery of "Cloud Resources" . But the "CI resources" Discovery is failing. I can Public IP Address are targeted in the scan.

Hence, my questions are:

1). The Step 3 "Discover Virtual Machines" is this for Host based discovery putting data in the "cmdb_win_Server" or "cmdb_ci_linux_server" table?

2). Any reason for the Public IP address being targeted for discovery?

3). In case of Linux based VMs in AWS, what kind to credentials will be required to perform AWS host based discovery?

Thanks in advance!

Shaan

[Ram Devanathan1]

Host Discovery by IP address requires access to the IP.. the public ip VMs can be accessed without additional mids as these are accessible outside of VPC.

in case of VMs without public IP mid needs to be setup in the subnet where these VMs are running or some kind of transit VPC/VPC peering needs to be done so a mid sitting in aws in 1 vpc can access VMs in other VPC.

credentials would be ssh credentials as needed for regular linux server/host discovery.

[Shantanu1 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your response Ram, much appreciated!!