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AWS Serverless Database pattern-based discovery

Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns finds Amazon Aurora Serverless databases on your cloud environment. Discovering some of these resources may require updating to the latest version of the Discovery and Service Mapping Patterns application from the ServiceNow Store.

Pattern-based discovery and mapping requirements

Verify the AWS discovery prerequisites section in AWS discovery using patterns.

Data collected by Discovery during horizontal discovery

Discovery populates the data in the CMDB when running the Amazon AWS Serverless Database pattern.

FieldDescription
Cluster ID \[cluster\_id\]User-supplied identifier for the DB cluster.
Name \[name\]Name of the database cluster. If a database cluster name isn't provided, the value is the same as the Cluster ID.
Fully qualified domain name \[fqdn\]Fully qualified domain name \(FQDN\) for the DB cluster.
Cluster Version \[cluster\_version\]Database engine version number.
Vendor \[vendor\]Database vendor. Value is set to Amazon.
Automated Backups \[automated\_backup\]Indicates whether automated backups are enabled and the retention period. Possible values are either Disabled or Enabled (X Days), where X represents the backup retention period in days.
Deletion Protection Enabled \[deletion\_protection\_enabled\]Indicates whether deletion protection is enabled for the DB cluster. Possible values are true or false. - true: Deletion protection is enabled and the database cannot be deleted - false: Deletion protection is disabled
IAM Authentication Enabled \[iam\_authentication\_enabled\]Indicates whether AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) database authentication is enabled. Possible values are true or false. - true: IAM authentication is enabled and you can use IAM credentials to authenticate to the database - false: IAM authentication is disabled
Storage Encrypted \[storage\_encrypted\]Indicates whether the DB cluster storage is encrypted.
Operational status \[operational\_status\]Operational status of the cluster. Default value is Operational.
FieldDescription
Object ID [object_id]Database instance identifier or Aurora Serverless cluster identifier.
Name [name]Name of the database instance or Aurora Serverless cluster.
Fully qualified domain name [fqdn]Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) for the DB cluster.
Version [version]Database engine version number.
Vendor [vendor]Database vendor. Value is set to Amazon.
FieldDescription
Object ID [object_id]Availability zone name.
Name [name]Availability zone name.
FieldDescription
Netmask [netmask]Netmask for the IP address. Value is set to 0.0.0.0.
Name [name]IP address of the database cluster.

CI relationships

The Amazon AWS Serverless Database pattern creates these relationships to support AWS database discovery.

CIRelationshipCI
Cloud DataBase Cluster [cmdb_ci_cloud_db_cluster]Cluster of::ClusterCloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]
Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]Hosted on::HostsAWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter]
Cloud DataBase Cluster [cmdb_ci_cloud_db_cluster]Hosted on::HostsAWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter]
Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]Contains::Contained byCloud DataBase Cluster [cmdb_ci_cloud_db_cluster]
Availability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]Contains::Contained byCloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]
AWS Datacenter [cmdb_ci_aws_datacenter]Contains::Contained byAvailability Zone [cmdb_ci_availability_zone]
Cloud DataBase Cluster [cmdb_ci_cloud_db_cluster]Owns::Owned byIP Address [cmdb_ci_ip_address]
Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]Owns::Owned byIP Address [cmdb_ci_ip_address]
Key Value [cmdb_key_value]ReferencesCloud DataBase Cluster [cmdb_ci_cloud_db_cluster]
Key Value [cmdb_key_value]ReferencesCloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database]

AWS Tag discovery

The Amazon AWS Serverless Database pattern collects tags and populates them in two entries in the Key Value [cmdb_key_value] table. One entry references the Cloud DataBase table, the other entry references the Cloud DataBase Cluster table.

FieldDescription
Key [key]Tag name.
Value [value]Tag value.
Configuration item [configuration_item]References the Cloud DataBase [cmdb_ci_cloud_database] table.
Configuration item [configuration_item]References the Cloud DataBase Cluster [cmdb_ci_cloud_db_cluster] table.

Parent Topic:AWS discovery using patterns