Strategy Recommendations application data collector

This section describes how to use the Strategy Recommendations application data collector.

For information about downloading and setting up an application data collector, see Step 1: Download the Strategy Recommendations collector.

Data collected by the Strategy Recommendations collector

This section describes the type of data that the Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations application data collector collects. An application data collector is an agentless data collector that identifies running applications on your servers, performs source code analysis, and analyzes your databases.

Data field	Description
OS type	Windows or Linux
OS version	The specific version of the OS. For example, Windows Server 2003, RHEL 5.2.
OS architecture	32-bit or 64-bit OS
Is Server VM	The server is a VM or a physical machine.
Virtualization software	For example, vCenter, Hyper-V.
Location	For example, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud console (Amazon EC2), or on-premises.
Is dualBoot	Allows booting into multiple OSs
Firmware type	BIOS, UEFI
Boot loader	GRUB, GRUB 2
Partition table type	MBR, GPT
CPU speed	CPU speed in GHz. For example, 2.4 GHz.
Windows OS data
Windows Edition	Standard, Data Center, Enterprise
.NET framework version	The version of the .NET framework installed.
.NET Core version	The version of .NET Core installed.
Linux data
Linux OS distribution	RHEL, CentOS, SUSE, and so on.
Kernel version	uname -r output, such as 4.9.217-0.1.ac.205.84.332.metal1.x86_64
For each disk volume
File system type	FAT32, NTFS, ReFS, ext4, jfs, and so on.
Disk volume size	Total disk size
Disk volume free space	Free disk space
Virtual disk image format	vmdk, vhd, vhdx
Disk type (Windows)	Basic, Dynamic
Application level data
Application name	The name of the running process. For example, SQLServr.exe, MSdtsservr.exe, and so on.
Application type	IIS, JBoss, Tomcat, and so on.
Programming language & version	C#, Java
JDK version	The version of the JDK installed.
Is source code available	If you provide a source code repository, it indicates that source code is available.
Application bit size	16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit
Windows
.NET framework version used by app	The version of the .NET framework DLL being loaded at runtime for the application.
.NET Core version	The version .NET Core DLL being loaded at runtime for the application.
Uses WPF framework ?	Determines if the .NET based application is a type of WPF app or not.
Uses WCF framework ?	Determines if the .NET based application is a type of WCF app or not.
ASP.NET version	The version of ASP.NET.
IIS version	The version of IIS server installed on the Windows machine.
Application OS drivers bit size	32-bit, 64-bit
Windows registry usage	Queries the registry keys of the machine to find information like database version, Java version, .NET version, and so on.
All DLLs used by the application	Fetches the list of all the DLLs loaded at runtime by a Windows process.
PowerShell version	Checks the PowerShell version installed on the machine, which should be 5.1 or later.
Linux
Application framework type	Tomcat, Spring Boot, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere
Application framework version	The version of the application framework.
Database
Database type	MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, and so on.
Database version	The version of the database.

Remove your data from Strategy Recommendations

To have all your data removed from Strategy Recommendations, contact AWS Support and request full data deletion.

Upgrading the Strategy Recommendations collector

The Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations application data collector upgrades automatically. You can use the following procedure to manually upgrade the collector, if needed.

To upgrade the Strategy Recommendations collector

1. Use the following command to connect to the collector VM using an SSH client.

   ssh ec2-user@CollectorIPAddress

2. Change to the upgrade directory in the collector VM as shown in the following example.

   cd  /home/ec2-user/collector/upgrades

3. Use the following command to run the upgrade script.

   bash application-data-collector-upgrade