AWS RDS

• What is Discovered and Monitored
• Event Types
• Configuration
• Sample Events

What is Discovered and Monitored

Type	Protocol	Information Discovered	Metrics Collected	Used For
Relational Database Storage (RDS)	CloudWatch API		CPU Utilization User Connections Free Memory Free Storage Used Swap Read Latency Write Latency Read Ops Write Ops	Performance Monitoring

Event Types

• PH_DEV_MON_RDS_METRIC captures RDS metrics

Configuration

If you have not already configured Access Keys and permissions in AWS, please follow the steps outlined in AWS Access Key IAM Permissions and IAM Policies.

Discovering AWS RDS

1. Go to the ADMIN > Setup > Credentials tab.
2. In Step 1: Enter Credentials:
   1. Follow the instructions in “Setting Credentials“ in the User's Guide to create a new credential.
   2. Enter these settings in the Access Method Definition dialog box and click Save:

      Settings	Description
      Name	Enter a name for the credential
      Device Type	Amazon AWS RDS
      Access Protocol	AWS SDK
      Region	Set Region as the region in which your AWS instance is located.
      Password Config	See Password Configuration.
      Access Key ID	Access key for your EC2 instance.
      Secret Key	Secret key for your EC2 instance
      Organization	Select an Organization from the drop-down list.
      Description	Description of the device.

3. In Step 2: Enter IP Range to Credential Associations, click New.
   1. Set IP/Host Name to amazon.com.
   2. Select the name of your AWS RDS credential from the Credentials drop-down list.
   3. Click Save.
4. Click the Test drop-down list and select Test Connectivity to test the connection to AWS RDS.
5. Go to ADMIN > Setup > Discovery.
6. Click New.
7. Fill out the information in the Discovery Definition window, ensuring you set Discovery Type as AWS Scan.
8. When done, click Save.
9. Select the entry and click Discover.
10. After Discovery finishes, check CMDB > Devices > Amazon Web Services > AWS Database.

Sample Events

[PH_DEV_MON_RDS_METRIC]:[eventSeverity]=PHL_INFO,[fileName]=deviceAwsRDS.cpp,[lineNumber]=104,[hostName]=mysql1.cmdzvvce07ar.ap-northeast-1.rds.amazonaws.com,[hostIpAddr]=54.64.131.93,[dbCpuTimeRatio]=1.207500,[dbUserConn]=0,[dbEnqueueDeadlocksPerSec]=0.000587,[freeMemKB]=489,[freeDiskMB]=4555,[swapMemUtil]=0.000000,[ioReadsPerSec]=0.219985,[ioWritesPerSec]=0.213329,[devDiskRdLatency]=0.08,[devDiskWrLatency]=0.4029,[phLogDetail]=