Identifying computers on public clouds
Available from 9.2.1. For all computers that run on public clouds, you must additionally identify them as such. This is required to apply the correct PVU rates, which might differ between the public clouds. It is enough to run a Fixlet against these computers and specify the type of the public cloud.
About this task
Public clouds that are currently supported by BigFix Inventory include:
- Amazon EC2
- IBM SoftLayer
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Compute Engine
Procedure
- In the navigation tree of the BigFix console, click .
- In the upper right pane, select Identify Computers on Public Clouds.
- Choose the type of the public cloud and click Take
Action.Note: If you incorrectly identified a computer as running on a public cloud, choose Remove existing identification.
- Select all computers that run on this type of cloud and
click OK.Tip: To check which computers are identified as running on public clouds, activate the Identified Public Cloud Computers analysis and open the Results tab.