Appendix 2: Data Imported by Microsoft Azure Connector
FlexNet Manager Suite
2020 R1
(On-Premises)
The PowerShell connector for Microsoft Azure returns information about each Azure instance,
and its host. All instances are subsequently displayed in the Cloud Service Provider
Inventory page. Hosts are never displayed in this page, as in general hosting is
variable and controlled by Microsoft Azure.
Tip: One exception where you have
direct control is the 'dedicated host'. Like all other host types, dedicated hosts do not
appear in the Cloud Service Provider Inventory listing; but they do
automatically appear in inventory device listings, such as the All
Inventory page, where you can search for them using the Hosted
in property. Any instances from the Cloud Service Provider
Inventory listing that are hosted on your dedicated host also display a link to
the dedicated host properties in the Host column.
Instance data
Tip: All kinds of instances return this set of data, whether they are virtual
machines or bare metal instances. The latter return an
If the data gathered through the
connector matches inventory collected from another source, the Cloud Service
Provider Inventory page includes a hyperlink to open the inventory device
properties page for the instance. Putting that another way, inventory device records are
not created when the Azure connector is the sole source of information; but they
are created when inventory is returned from another source that covers the cloud
instance (one possible example is having FlexNet inventory agent running locally on the
instance). In this latter case, linked records exist in both the
Instance type
starting with i3.. ComplianceComputer
and CloudServiceInstance
tables.Some data is additional to the normal content collected as inventory. For example, the
InstanceTenancyID
, used for identifying whether the current device is a
Dedicated instance, or is an instance running
On dedicated host, is imported into the
CloudServiceInstance
table, and, as Availability
type, is visible in both the Cloud Service Provider
Inventory page and the Cloud Hosting tab of the
inventory device properties (where inventory exists for the instance).Tip: Azure
"bare metal instances" behave like other instances in terms of data gathered and records
created.
When there is an inventory device record for an instance, the inventory-related values
imported through the Microsoft Azure connector (and shown below in alphabetical order) are
displayed in the separate Cloud Hosting tab of the inventory device
properties:
AvailabilityZone
(state of the instance, will be mapped toStarted
,Stopped
, orUnknown
)CoreCount
ImageID
InstanceCloudID
(Azure VmId, which is also UUID of the VM)InstanceType
Region
VMEnabledStateID
.
FlexNet Manager Suite (On-Premises)
2020 R1