Filter out Virtual Desktop from Cloud Discovery

[Ankur Khanna]

Hi,

We have cloud discovery setup for one of the Service Account, which is bringing Virtual Machine instances as well as Virtual Desktops and uploading them into VM Instance table. We do not want to discover Virtual Desktops from the Cloud Discovery. We can segregate them based on their naming convention. I am looking for some help in customizing the Azure - Virtual Machine (LP) pattern to exclude Virtual Desktops. Currently we are using OOB pattern. thanks!

[Niklas Peterson]

Hi,

Instead of modifying patterns to exclude resources I would recommend using the access rights as the method of exclusion. This can easily be achieved by not providing access to the resources for your Service Principal. You can't discover what you can't see.

Regards,
Niklas

[Ankur Khanna]

Hi,

Thank you for replying to the query here, but we cannot use this solution, the problem is our cloud team have configured Virtual Desktop & Virtual Servers under the same Service Account and access to them were already provided. The number of Virtual Desktop & VMs are pretty high so we cannot easily move them from one account to another (would take time), that is why we thought if we can alter the patterns to get the desired solution. thanks!

[Niklas Peterson]

Sure, just giving you an option here. Personally I would rather spend some time on Azure side than to take on all future maintenance of the pattern. Touch it and you will no longer get any updates.

Regards,
Niklas 

[pratik0306]

I Agree with @Niklas Peterson . You can inform your Azure team to just make changes to the permission on Resource level and i think that should be definitely possible and not time consuming as well.