Overview

The Amazon AWS Discovery Event Monitor connects to Amazon's AWS cloud platform and searches for instances. It compares what it finds with the list of existing network devices and adds any new instances to a device group that you select. It's a great way to keep your monitoring configuration synchronized with your Amazon AWS configuration.

Use Cases

• Detecting and adding new devices to your existing monitoring configuration

Monitoring Options

This event monitor provides the following options:

Alert with [Info/Warning/Error/Critical] if Amazon AWS cannot be contacted

Use this option to alert you if the event monitor is unable to connect to Amazon AWS. Reasons for a failure to connect include invalid security credentials and loss of external network access.

Region

Select the region where Amazon AWS stores your instances.

Device Group

Select the device group where the event monitor will add any new devices that it detects.

Device Name

Amazon AWS instances can be added to your network devices using either their internal/external IP address. They can also be added using their internal/external DNS name.

Display Name

Amazon AWS instances can use either their instance name or the above-mentioned device name as a default display name.

Ignore

Use this section to list any internal/external IP address or instance id you wish NOT to be added as a network device. Each entry must be on a separate line.

Authentication and Security

The account that is used to authenticate must have read permission for Amazon AWS EC2.

Protocols

Click on a protocol to learn more.

Data Points

This event monitor generates the following data points:

Data Point	Description
Count of Detected Devices	The number of devices detected by the event monitor.

Sample Output

Tutorial

To view the tutorial for this event monitor, click here.