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The connector creates Inventory files in the snowpack format (.snowpack). The following sections list the fields that are used in the snowpack manifest and what information they are populated with.

Amazon AWS BIOS

Field in snowpack manifest

Field in SIM configuration

Serial

Reservations | Instance | InstanceId

Vendor

Hard coded to "AmazonEC2"

Identity

Field in snowpack manifest

Field in Amazon EC2

AWSEC2: VmId

Reservations | Instance | InstanceId

SIM

Field in snowpack manifest

Field in Amazon EC2

ID

Reservations | Instance | InstanceId

Source

Field in snowpack manifest

Field in SIM configuration

Name

A constant that is set by the connector.

Value = "external-discovery-sim-amazon"

SiteName

A local site name set in the connector configuration overrides the global site id for SIM.

Name

Field in snowpack manifest

Field in Amazon EC2

DNSHostName

Reservations | Instance | PublicDnsName

Network

Field in snowpack manifest

Field in Amazon EC2

MAC

Reservations | Instance | NetworkInterface | MACaddress

IPAddress

Reservations | Instance | PrivateIpAddress