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Run and View vDiscovery Data
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Run and View vDiscovery Data

Owned by Shirly Tsang
Jul 12, 2024
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To manually run your vDiscovery job, from the vDiscovery Job Manager window click the (Action Menu) for your vDiscovery job.

Select Start.

Click Yes in the popup window.

vDiscovery Data

Data collected by vDiscovery can be tracked through Data Management (IPAM, DHCP and DNS) and if the CNA license is installed, additional details will be found under the Cloud tab. Objects created by vDiscovery will automatically include metadata in their properties or extensible attributes (EA’s), a useful addition that enables you to easily identify, locate and report on your resources deployed in the cloud.

Data Management

From the Data Management tab, you can access IPAM and DNS data discovered from your Azure environment.

  • IPAM: IPAM, or IP Address Management, provides an easy view of all data from an IP address perspective. If you are looking for an object based on its IP address, this can be one of the easiest ways to drill down and see everything there is for that IP, including all objects that are associated with it.

  • DNS: If you enabled the automatic creation of DNS records, the records can be viewed by drilling down into the DNS zone you specified.

Cloud Network Automation

When the CNA license is installed, you will find the Cloud tab in your Grid Manager GUI. The Cloud tab includes five additional tabs that each provide different perspectives for viewing your cloud data, making it easy to see what is running in your cloud environments.

  • Tenants: For Azure vDiscovery, entries on this tab correspond to Azure AD tenants. You can drill down to review all VNets and VMs that have been discovered under that tenant.

  • VPCs: This tab displays any discovered Azure VNets. You can drill down to review all subnets and VMs that have been discovered under an individual VNet.

  • Networks: This tab displays all subnets that have been discovered in your Azure VNets. Easily jump to IPAM or other perspectives to view additional details for a subnet. Searches, Smart Folders and reports can also leverage the metadata stored as EAs for each subnet.

  • VMs: This tab shows all VMs that have been discovered and are displayed per IP address. Metadata is stored in the properties for each VM, and you can readily jump to other perspectives to view and manage additional resources, including any DNS records that may have been created for the VM.

  • Extensible Attributes: Metadata collected for each type of object discovered varies and is stored as Extensible Attributes in the Infoblox Grid. The following is an example of EAs for a Subnet.

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