Managing Nodes in the Cloud

The Genian ZTNA Cloud Collector can be enabled to collect information about IP-enabled nodes in a Cloud environment. At the configured interval, the Cloud Collector will query the Cloud Service Provider to identify any nodes in the specified environment as well as other valuable Cloud related details of the discovered nodes.

Configuring Cloud Environment

Add Cloud Provider

  1. From the top menu navigate to System > Cloud Provider
  2. Click Tasks then Create
  3. Enter Name for the Cloud Provider (ex. 'AWS Cloud')
  4. Select "AWS" for Cloud
  5. Enter AWS Access Key
  6. Enter AWS Secret Key
  7. Click Save

Create Cloud site

  1. From the top menu, navigate to System > Site
  2. Click Tasks then Create
  3. Enter a Name for the site (ex. 'Corp Hub' or 'VCP-XXXXXXXX')
  4. For Infrastructure select Cloud
  5. For Cloud Provider, select the Cloud Provider created in the previous steps
  6. For Region, select the desired AWS Region from the list
  7. For VPC ID, select the desired VPC from the list

Note

If no VPCs are listed, check the previous step and logs to ensure there were no issues when adding the Cloud Provider.

  1. For Type select Hub or Branch
  2. For Network Address enter the corresponding subnet for the VPC entered in step 7 (ex. 172.31.16.0/20)
  3. Set Collector status to Enabled (leave Proxy settings default and set desired collection interval)
  4. Click Save

Verify Cloud Node Detection

  1. From the top menu, navigate to Management > Node
  2. In the left window pane, click on the Site name created in the previous steps
  3. All AWS EC2 instances in the VPC and subnet previously specified should be listed as nodes
  4. AWS details for discovered nodes is logged under node details. Node details can be viewed by navigating to Management > Node, clicking on the node IP and scrolling down to the AWS section.

Note

See: Monitoring Network Nodes for search, grouping and monitoring of nodes.Managing Nodes in the Cloud