Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS_EC2)


The AWS_EC2 application class provides data about CPU, Network traffic, and Disk space used by the EC2 instance.

An AWS_EC2 application instance is created for each Amazon EC2 instance. An AWS_EC2 instance is sometimes attached to and appear under an AWS_ELB instance, or it can appear under the AWS_ACCOUNT, when not attached to an ELB instance.

Note

The Elastic Compute Cloud monitor type in BMC ProactiveNet Performance Management is referred as the AWS_EC2 application class in BMC PATROL.

BMC PATROL properties

Item

Description

Active

Yes

Created by

Discovery

Parent class

AWS_ACCOUNT or AWS_ELB

Child classes

  • AWS_EC2_CPU

  • AWS_EC2_DISK

  • AWS_EC2_NETWORK

 InfoBox

The AWS_EC2 application class InfoBox contains the following information:

Note

InfoBoxes are not accessible from a BMC ProactiveNet console.

InfoBox item

Description

AMI ID

The identifier for the Amazon Machine Image.

AMI Launch Index

The Amazon Machine Image launch index.

Availability Zone

The name, numbers, and/or letters that identify the zone where the instance is available.

Block Devices

The block devices used by the instance.

EC2 Instance

The name for the EC2 instance.

Instance Type

The EC2 instance type.

Launch Time

The time when the instance was launched.

Meta Entity Type

The description of its entity. For EC2 instance, it's Amazon.EC2

Meta FQDN

Fully Qualfied Domain Name.
This is the required attribute for setting Dynamic Metadata.

Meta Token ID

Its value is hostname:domainname.
This is the required attribute for setting Dynamic Metadata.

Monitoring

This displays if the detailed monitoring is enabled/disabled.

Owner

The owner of the instance.

Placement group

The logical entity that enables creating a cluster of instances by launching instances as part of a group.

Platform

The platform for the instance.

Private DNS Name

The private name for the Domain Name System for the instance.

Private IP Address

The private IP address for the instance.

Public DNS Name

The pulbic name for the Domain Name System name for the instance.

Public IP Address

The IP address for the instance.

Region Name

The name of the region for the EC2 instance.

Reservation

A collection of instances started as part of the same launch request.

Root Device Name

The root device name for the instance.

Root Device Type

The root device type for the instance.

Security Groups

The name of any security groups to which the instance belongs.

State Transition Reason

This provides information in case of state trasition.

Subnet ID

The subnet ID in which the instance is running.

Virtualization

This describes the type of hardware virtualization.

VPC ID

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud identifier.

 

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