Use the AWS Account Configure menu command in the PATROL console to perform the initial configuration of each Amazon Web Services account. This command allows you to add, modify, and delete Amazon Web Services accounts from monitoring:
With BMC PATROL for Amazon Web Services, you can monitor multiple Amazon Web Services accounts with a single PATROL Agent. Before you can monitor the Amazon Web Services accounts, you must configure them for monitoring.
You must know the Secret Key and the Access Key of the Amazon Web Services account that you want to monitor in BMC PATROL for AWS.
In the Account Label feild, specify a name to identify the Amazon Web Services account.
The Account Label field does not support using blank spaces and special characters such as /, \, &, and @.
(Optional) In the Region Filter field, specify the regions that should be included or excluded from monitoring and enable the Include or Exclude option accordingly.
Example
You must specify the internal name of the regions.
Use a comma separator to provide more than one region in this field.
If you do not provide any value in this field, all the regions will be considered.
Tag values ending with word Production: Production$
For example; Name=Prod*, Department=Dev*
If you want to search for multiple values for same Tag keys, then regular expression must be used. For example; if you want the instances for Tags having Production and Development as values then, Name=Production|Developement
filter can be used. You can also use Name=^Production$|Development$
filter for exact value matching.
The Amazon Web Services account is added and the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS) instances are discovered.
Use this task to modify Amazon Web Services accounts that are being monitored in BMC PATROL for Amazon Web Services (BMC PATROL for AWS).
Modify the access key and the secure key, as required.
The option of modifying the Account Label is not supported.
Use this task to remove Amazon Web Services accounts that are being monitored.