This page covers some frequently asked questions regarding Lansweeper's Cloud Discovery.
Lansweeper’s Cloud Discovery identifies and catalogs all assets within your cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines, storage buckets, databases, and more.
This page covers some of the frequently asked questions.
I configured my AWS, Azure or GCP discovery action and assets are not ending up in my Lansweeper Site: Inventory > Cloud assets.
- Ensure you set up the right access from Lansweeper Site to your public cloud environment. See Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- When you see this error while creating the discovery action:
"The application does not have the required permission to access the key vault. Ensure the application has ‘GET secret’ and ‘LIST secret’ permissions."
The app registration does not have access to the secrets of the key vault. Even though it can access the key vault itself, it cannot read the key vault secrets.
To allow this, you must add an Access Policy to the key vault.
This is also described in this Medium article: Accessing Azure Key Vault Secrets with Azure Functions.
- If you can’t find the audience field for Azure federated credentials:
In the German version of Azure, this appears to be the Benutzergruppe field. For your convenience, we have included a screenshot of the English version below so you can follow the steps in the KB article.
- Ensure there are no hidden trailing space characters in the secret value of the key vault.
- Ensure the Lansweeper Site ID saved in the secret is indeed the ID of the Lansweeper Site you are creating the cloud action in (see Configuration > Site settings > Site ID).
- When you create the cloud action, you can set a trigger to occur 5 minutes in the future (for testing purposes) and wait 10-15 minutes before checking the inventory.
