Cloud Inventory Management

Owned by Kumar Desai (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Nov 23, 2020 by Anuj Raghuram (Unlicensed)
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Overview

HyperCloud Portal supports Inventory management for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Accounts only.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud platform fail to provide insights into your IaaS services and Product landscape. This leads to complications, inefficiencies like overpayment for cloud subscriptions, and a definitive lack of understanding of your environment.

The HyperCloud™ Platform (HCP) discovers resources on your public cloud platform continuously, irrespective of the location. The HCP categorizes your on-premise, cloud, or SaaS-based resources and analyzes each asset so you can understand, manage, and secure your resource inventory.

With our Enhanced Cloud Inventory Management feature you can:

  • Track resources

  • Manage inventory

  • Pinpoint changes to your environment

  • Drill down to know about your individual resources

  • Get an overview of your deployment environment using our Dashboard widgets, Summary, or Resource Maps.

  • Instantly identify the resources in your environment that have stopped running or are unused.

  • View and manage your Public Cloud Services, Assets, Resources, and Instances from one place.

Note: Inventory Rediscovery

  • Microsoft Azure accounts are region independent. If you manually trigger a rediscovery, the HCP will automatically discover all your resources irrespective of their location.

  • Amazon Web Service (AWS) accounts are region-dependent. You will have to manually trigger the resource rediscovery process on the AWS cloud platform by selecting your AWS account and the region.

Tip: Enable Compliance and Security real-time monitoring

  • Whenever you add a Microsoft Azure account from the Administration menu you will see an option to Enable Compliance and Security real-time monitoring.

  • Fill up the details to enable continuous monitoring for your Microsoft Azure account.

  • Whenever you enable continuous monitoring, you do not have to manually trigger resource rediscovery.

  • To know more about continuous monitoring refer to the Microsoft Azure documentation.

Inventory

You can drill-down into your Resources to view metadata such as Region, Resource Type, and Tags.

View your Inventory

To view your inventory details:

  1. Login to your HCP account.

  2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Inventory.

     

  3. You can view the following Inventory details:

    • Inventory per cloud account.

    • Inventory can be viewed per region.

    • You can filter and view inventory based on resource types.

    • You can further filter and view your inventory for tagged and untagged resources.

  4. User can perform two operations on inventory item. -

    1. View Inventory Details

    2. Manage Tags

View Inventory Details

To view the details of your inventory resource:

  1. Login to your HCP account.

  2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Inventory > Select the Resource.

     

  3. You can view these inventory details:

    • General information

    • Compliance information, if you’ve created a resource policy for the resource.

    • Configuration

Manage Tags

You can tag an inventory resource or multiple inventory resources at one go.

Tag your Inventory

To tag your inventory resource: -

  1. Login to your HCP account.

  2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Inventory > Manage Tags.

  3. Select the Resource.

  4. Click the edit icon under Actions.

  5. Tag your Resource.

  6. Click Save.

To tag multiple inventory resources:

Serverless

Serverless is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) specific feature that lists lambda function details.

To view your serverless details:

  1. Login to your HCP account.

  2. Navigate to Governance & Security > Inventory > Serverless.

     

  3. To view the details of your Lambda function: navigate to Governance & Security > Inventory > Serverless > Details.

 

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