Generate Inventory Lists for Managed Instances

You can use AWS Systems Fleet Manager to collect operating system, application, and instance metadata from your Amazon EC2 instances and your on-premises servers or virtual machines in your hybrid environment. You can query the metadata to quickly understand which instances are running the software and configurations required by your software policy, and which instances need to be updated.

In this task, you will use the AWS Systems Fleet Manager to gather inventory from an Amazon EC2 instance.

-In the AWS Management Console, on the  Services  menu, click Systems Manager.

-In the left navigation pane, click Fleet Manager.

-Click  Get Started  if it appears.

-Under Managed Instance, on the Account management  menu, click Set up inventory

-You will now create an association that will collect information about software and settings for your managed instance.

5. • Name: Inventory-Association

   • Targets: Manually selecting instances

     • Select Managed Instance
       

- Click  Setup Inventory (at the bottom of the page).

-AWS Systems Manager Inventory will now regularly inventory the instance for the selected properties.

-Click the Instance ID link displayed in the Managed Instance row.

-Click the Inventory tab.

A list of all of the applications on the instance will be displayed. If nothing appears, wait a minute, then refresh the page.

Take a moment to review the installed applications and other options in the Inventory type pull-down menu.

You have successfully created an AWS Systems Manager inventory association for your instance. Using AWS Systems Manager Inventory, you can review and validate software configurations on your instances without needing to SSH into each instance.