View collected data using the Migration Hub console

For both the Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (Agentless Collector) and AWS Discovery Agent (Discovery Agent), after the data collection process starts, you can use the console to view their collected data about your servers and VMs. Data appears in the console approximately 15 minutes after data collection starts. You can also view this data in CSV format by exporting the collected data by making API calls using the AWS CLI.

To view collected data about discovered servers in the console, follow the steps in Viewing servers in the AWS Migration Hub console. To learn more about using the console to view, sort, and tag servers discovered by your Agentless Collectors or Discovery Agents, see Discovering data with the AWS Migration Hub console.

The Agentless Collector database and analytics data collection module uploads the collected data to the Amazon S3 bucket. You can view the data from this bucket in the AWS DMS console. To view collected data about discovered database and analytics servers, follow the steps in Viewing your collected data.

Matching logic for discovered servers and applications

AWS Application Discovery Service (Application Discovery Service) has built-in matching logic that identifies when servers that it discovers match existing entries. When this logic finds a match, it updates the information for the already-existing discovered server with new values.

This matching logic handles duplicate servers from multiple sources including AWS Migration Hub (Migration Hub) import, Application Discovery Service Agentless Collector (Agentless Collector), AWS Application Discovery Agent (Discovery Agent), and other migration tools. For more information about Migration Hub import, see Migration Hub Import.

When server discovery occurs, each entry is cross-checked with previously imported records to ensure that the imported server does not already exist. If no match is found, a new record is created and a new unique server identifier is assigned. If a match is found, then a new entry is still created, but it's assigned the same unique server identifier as the existing server. When viewing this server in the Migration Hub console, you only find one unique entry for the server.

Server attributes associated with this entry are merged to show attribute values from a previously available record as well as the newly imported record. If there is more than one value for a given server attribute from multiple sources, e.g., two different values within for Total RAM associated with a given server discovered using import and also by the Discovery Agent, then the value that was most recently updated is shown in the matched record for the server.

Matching fields

The following fields are used to match servers when discovery tools are used.