TechWatchAlert
Fleet and cloud

AWS Systems Manager

The software on your EC2 instances and hybrid servers, read from the Systems Manager inventory.

What the connector does

The AWS connector reads the Systems Manager inventory, region by region, with an IAM user that has a single permission: ssm:GetInventory. It covers EC2 instances and servers managed by Systems Manager, including outside AWS.

What comes into TechWatchAlert

  • Installed applications (name, version, publisher) on each managed instance
  • Each instance in the fleet, with its OS; terminated instances are ignored
  • A comparison with distribution advisories when the OS is known
  • Up to 20 regions read per connector

Setup

  1. Make sure the SSM Agent is running and inventory collection is enabled (Systems Manager › Inventory)
  2. Create a dedicated IAM user with only the ssm:GetInventory permission, then an access key
  3. In TechWatchAlert, enter the regions, the access key ID (AKIA…) and the secret key

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