Application Discovery Agent (ADS)

Application Discovery Agent installation and Testing

Launch an instance

Set Migration Hub home page - It is supported in US-WEST-2 and EU-Central-1

On the server which requires discovery, run the below commands for agent installation.

# curl -o ./aws-discovery-agent.tar.gz https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/aws-discovery-agent.us-west-2/linux/latest/aws-discovery-agent.tar.gz

# curl -o ./agent.sig https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/aws-discovery-agent.us-west-2/linux/latest/aws-discovery-agent.tar.gz.sig

# curl -o ./discovery.gpg https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/aws-discovery-agent.us-west-2/linux/latest/discovery.gpg

# gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring ./discovery.gpg --verify agent.sig aws-discovery-agent.tar.gz

# tar -xzf aws-discovery-agent.tar.gz

# sudo bash install -r us-east-1 -k <accesskey> -s <secretaccess key>

Note:

Region in commands has to be changed as per the requirement

Access key and secret access key should have proper policies assigned to perform this installation

Extra shots

Log file for the agent

# /var/log/aws/discovery

Configuration file

#/var/opt/aws/discovery

Must Knows:

Application Discovery agent captures

1. System configuration

2. System performance

3. Running processes

4. Network connections between two systems

For System configuration and system performance we get it displayed on the ADS console.

For running processes and Network connections between two systems we need to download the details required.