The Infrastructure section presents all the information collected about virtual machines, hosts, clusters, datacenters, and scan alerts in your infrastructure.
Virtual Machines
The VIRTUAL MACHINES tab contains details of all virtual machines inventoried by the OC Scanners over direct scans or hypervisors. This tab also contains information on the software installed and scanned on the virtual machine. OC Reporter is able to map over algorithms VMs scanned directly by an OC Scanner and the same VMs stored in the hypervisor scanned by another OC Scanner. Some important fields to mention:
- DRS Hosts: When virtual machines are running in clusters, OC Scanner can detect over the hypervisor on which hosts the virtual machine can run in the cluster, which is relevant for the licensing.
- HKEY: OC Scanner is able to scan HKEYs of the machines. You can configure in OC Configurator which HKEY values the OC Scanner should scan.
- Other attributes: If you wish to scan additional attributes of the servers, you can configure that in OC Configurator. These other attributes and their value will be listed as comma-separated in this field.
- Exclude from SPLA usage report: By default, all servers with SPLA relevant software are included in the SPLA usage report calculation. You can exclude servers manually over this field. But the better and more secure approach is to do that over scripts.
- Licensing start date: When you define a licensing start date, the SPLA usage report will take that into the account and only count that server if the licensing start date is in the date range of the report observation period.
- Licensing end date: When you define a licensing end date, the SPLA usage report will take that into the account and only count that server if the licensing end date is in the date range of the report observation period.
- Status: The status of a server is usually collected by the hypervisor platform. Direct scanned virtual machines have always the status “On”.
Hosts
The HOSTS tab contains details of all physical servers/computers that are in the scan scope of your OC Scanners. This tab also contains information on the software installed and scanned on the host. In OC Reporter all physical computers are stored under this tab. Hosts are usually scanned over the hypervisor APIs, except the Hyper-V hosts. Those can also be collected over the direct scan. Some important fields to mention:
- HKEY: OC Scanner is able to scan HKEYs of the machines. You can configure in OC Configurator which HKEY values the OC Scanner should scan.
- Other attributes: If you wish to scan additional attributes of the servers, you can configure that in OC Configurator. These other attributes and their value will be listed as comma-separated in this field.
- Exclude from SPLA usage report: By default, all servers with SPLA relevant software are included in the SPLA usage report calculation. If a host is excluded from SPLA, all virtual machines running on that host, are also excluded from SPLA. You can exclude servers manually over this field. But the better and more secure approach is to do that over scripts.
- Force SPLA SQL license: By default, the OC Reporter intelligence tries to calculate the best license for you, but you have the possibility to force the SQL license on the host level. That will license the entire host with the forced SQL license. A good approach is to do it over scripts.
- Force SPLA OS license: By default, the OC Reporter intelligence tries to calculate the best license for you, but you have the possibility to force the OS license on the host. That will license the entire host with the forced OS license. A good approach is to do it over scripts.
- Licensing start date: When you define a licensing start date, the SPLA usage report will take that into the account and only count that server if the licensing start date is in the date range of the report observation period.
- Licensing end date: When you define a licensing end date, the SPLA usage report will take that into the account and only count that server if the licensing end date is in the date range of the report observation period.
- Status: The status of a server is usually collected by the hypervisor platform. Direct scanned virtual machines have always the status “On”.
Clusters
The CLUSTERS tab contains details of all clusters in the service. They are collected by the hypervisor APIs.
Datacenters
The DATACENTERS tab contains details of all datacenters in the service. They are collected by the hypervisor APIs.
Scan Alerts
The SCAN ALERTS tab contains information about any issues found during the scan.
Direct Scan vs. Hypervisor Scan
The difference between a Direct Scan and a Hypervisor scan is, that in the direct scan OC Scanners are logging in to the machines with the given credentials to collect the needed data as the installed applications, user licenses such as Exchange, RDS, or Office, etc. In the Hypervisor scan, OC Scanner only connects to the API of the hypervisor and collects the data getting from there. In the hypervisor scan, the most important pieces of information which are collected are the relations between virtual machines and hosts and in which clusters the hosts are running.
In OC View you can see in the virtual machines and hosts listings from which source the data was collected. The column Scan Scource gives that information. If a virtual machine was scanned directly and additionally over the hypervisor, and the mapping of both scan sources was successful in OC View, then the scan source will be set to Direct Scan.