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a) Select Management Groups in Azure Portal.:

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b) Select the management group in question (the one from which subscriptions are to be collected by Cloudaware ; if (as in the example below) or the Tenant Root Group is selected, for Cloudaware will to discover all available subscriptions):

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c) Go to Access Control (IAM) on the left → click +Add → Add role assignment. :

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d) Grant the Cloud application with access to the management group in question:

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6 - Grant Access To Key Vaults


Сloudaware has to be granted with the access to Key Vault* to be able to check the expiration date of keys and secrets. Set up the access policy for Cloudaware application on the Key Vault level.

*Cloudaware retrieves metadata only ('Azure Key Vault Key' and 'Azure Key Vault Secret' objects). No keys or secrets are accessible to Cloudaware.

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If AKS cluster is AD managed, check this guide to set up the cluster role binding and grant required permissions to Cloudaware.

9 - Microsoft Devices Discovery (Intune) (optional)

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based endpoint management solution helping to manage user access and simplify app and device management across Microsoft infrastructure. Learn more

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  • Azure Active Directory Devices

  • Azure Active Directory Compliance Policies

  • Azure Active Directory Device Config

10 - Tagging Permissions for Cloudaware (optional)

Use the Tag Contributor role or create a custom role to define the scope of provided permissions on tagging (see 'Custom Role For Tagging').

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The role Tag Contributor uses a recently released Azure API method. Learn more about the role

Cloudaware Setup

1 - Adding Azure Active Directory to Cloudaware
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3. The green light in 'Status' means that Azure Active Directory has been successfully added. If there is a red light, please contact support@cloudaware.com.

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2 - Adding Azure Subscription to Cloudaware

In case you haven't checked the checkbox 'Automatically Discover Subscriptions' as described in the previous section, follow these steps to manually add subscriptions.

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5. Given the checkbox 'Automatically Discover Subscriptions' is checked, the tab 'Untracked Subscriptions' shows all Azure subscriptions Cloudaware has discovered in your Active Directory but is not able to collect due to insufficient access caused by an incorrect role assigned (check step 5 in Assigning Role to SubscriptionsReader by default or higher).

3 - Understanding Azure Application in Cloudaware

Such Azure Active Directory credentials as Application ID (Client ID) and Client Secret are stored as Azure Application entity in Cloudaware. Please note that Azure Application can be created only when adding Azure AD.

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