IBM Cloud VPC Asset Discovery

In this guide we will showcase how to connect and retrieve VPC instances from a given IBM Cloud account, then use Asset Update to store them within the Asset A-Ops application

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Requirements

  • Asset Integration
  • IBM Cloud Integration

Steps

  1. Add Trigger object to the flow
  2. Edit the trigger, name it and press save
  3. Add and configure an IBM Cloud Connect object to the flow, with an API Key. The region depends on the environment the information resides in.
  4. Add an IBM Cloud Get VPC to retrieve all available VPCs based on the permissions provided to the API Account.
  5. Add and configure a ForEach action to loop over all retrieved VPC's.
  6. Add IBM Cloud Get VPC Instance to retrieve all available VPC instances based on the permissions provided to the API Account.
  7. Add and configure a ForEach action to loop over all retrieved VPC Instances.
  8. An Asset Update would be connected to EC2 related Assets.

All above steps can be viewed below.

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