Configuring and running the Amazon Web Services Inventory data provider
Setting up the configuration
To configure the data provider:
- In the Administration application go to Integration > Data Providers and open the Amazon Web Services Inventory data provider for editing.
- Edit the default configuration from the Configurations grid.
- On the General page, select the Enabled checkbox.
- On the Settings page:
- Fill in the Access Key and Secret Key fields.
- Use the Resources View Region Name field to specify the region whose default view will be used to retrieve corresponding resources. Refer here to find this value on AWS access portal.
- Choose the organizational unit to which newly imported cloud services will be assigned.
- If necessary, you can adjust the status that will be assigned to newly created cloud services.
- If the Change status for deleted services checkbox is selected, you can use the corresponding dropdown field to set a preferred status to cloud services that are no longer imported from your company's AWS access portal portal.
- Save the configuration.
- Run the Enable and Activate action for the data provider.
Checking the import results
Click the configuration of the Amazon Web Services Inventory data provider to open its preview.
The Last Result section of the preview shows if the import was successful or not. The preview also displays all jobs, workflow instances and import logs for the selected configuration.
You can also review jobs, workflow instances and import logs on the separate tabs of the configuration dialog.
After the successful execution of the data provider, you can also find an XML file with imported virtual machines in the Matrix42 root folder under Messages/Data/AmazonWebServicesInventory/LastResult.