How does discovery find name of Azure , AWS cloud VM's. Is it via DNS ?

[Doraemon]

Hi experts, How does discovery find name of Azure , AWS cloud VM's. Is it via DNS ? 

Please explain the process of Cloud discovery finding name of virtual machines.

[Niklas Peterson]

Hi,

Cloud Discovery patterns uses API calls for the Cloud Environment APIs to fetch information about the resources. For example, Virtual Machines in Azure are fetched using this endpoint.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azureresourcegraph/resourcegraph/resources/resources?view...

The response is then parsed and the returned parameters are mapped to attributes in the CMDB.

Regards,
Niklas

[FYL]

Azure
Azure Cloud Discovery
Azure VM attribute = Name

AWS

Amazon AWS Cloud Discovery - VM query attribute

name	"DescribeInstancesResponse.reservationSet.item.instancesSet.item.tagSet.item.value==Name OR DescribeInstancesResponse.reservationSet.item.instancesSet.item.instanceId"