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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 -> PrivateDnsName

Network

Field in snowpack manifest	Field in Amazon EC2
MAC	Reservations -> Instance -> NetworkInterface -> MACaddress
IPAddress	Reservations -> Instance -> PrivateIpAddress