Frequently asked questions
What type of data does StratoZone collect for the assessment?
StratoZone collects data relating to your IT assets such as capacity,
performance, hardware specs, OS information etc.
A full list of data collected is shown in
Appendix A and Appendix B.
How does StratoZone access data on my IT assets?
StratoZone uses an agentless data collection approach that does not
require the installation of agents or appliances.
The StratoZone data collector installed within your firewall,
accesses the assets or IP ranges you specify remotely using
SSH for Linux assets, WMI and WinRM for Windows assets.
Do I have to provide my organization's login credentials to
StratoZone?
To conduct an agentless data collection, you will provide credentials to the
StratoZone data collector application installed within your firewall,
where your credentials are stored encrypted and never transmitted outside
your organization or to StratoZone.
Credentials are destroyed when you delete the data collector application.
What is the data used for?
The data is used to analyze your IT environment for cloud assessment and
planning purposes, including inventory, cloud pricing, dependencies, selection
of Google Cloud products, etc.
Depending on your continued use of StratoZone,
the data may be used to assist you with your cloud-migration.
Your data is never sold to any third parties.
Where is my data stored?
The StratoZone platform is hosted in Google Cloud data centers in
the United States.
How is my data secured?
Collected data is encrypted (i) in transit to the StratoZone
portal using HTTPS using TLS 1.2 or, for the latest version of Windows, TLS 1.3,
with RSA Encryption (SHA-256), and (ii) at rest when in the StratoZone
platform using RDBMS-level security (AES-256 encryption, SHA256 hash).
Sensitive data, such as usernames, passwords, and IP addresses, is encrypted
when stored in your local environment (AES256 encryption, HMACSHA1 hash).
The StratoZone portal secures your data with industry standard security
including HTTPS using TLS 1.2 or 1.3 with RSA Encryption (SHA-256),
and requires 2FA.
What operational guidelines does StratoZone comply with?
StratoZone partners and strictly follows Google ECMA guidelines.
In partnership with ECMA, StratoZone maintains the following industry
certifications: ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 2, and SOC 3.
Is my data isolated from other customer data?
Your data is logically segmented from other customer data within the
StratoZone database.
Additionally, there are separate application-level access controls for
each customer assessment.
Who has access to my data?
Authorized members of your organization, Google, and any partners that may be
engaged to assist you with your assessment or cloud-migration.
For more details, see the StratoZone subscription and
licensing agreement.
How long is my data retained?
Your data is retained for 60 days after the end of your subscription period
(and any subsequent renewals). The subscription period defaults to 3 years. You
can request the deletion of your data at any time during the subscription period
or the 60 day retention period.
StratoZone will comply with this instruction as
soon as reasonably practicable, and in compliance with applicable law.
For more details, see the
StratoZone data policy.
Can I opt out of transmitting sensitive fields to the StratoZone
portal?
Yes, you can exclude fields such as IP addresses before this information
is sent to the StratoZone portal.
You must opt out of sending certain data fields before you set up
the collector(s). For more details, see
Security levels for collection.
Note that these options forfeit some functionality.
Notify your Google or Partner engineer accordingly.
Appendix A: Data fields collected by StratoZone
Category |
Description |
General information |
- Name of a computer manufacturer
- Model name that a manufacturer gives to a machine
- Total size of physical memory
- Number of physical and logical processors
- Name and speed of each processor available
- Date and time the operating system was last restarted
- Version number of the operating system
- Activation date of the computer
- Operating system name, vendor, major version, and minor version
- CPU Architecture (32 or 64bit)
- vCenter Folder (only applicable for vCenter scans)
- vCenter Host (only applicable for vCenter scans)
- VM ID and VM name (only applicable for vCenter scans)
- VM Power State (only applicable for vCenter scans)
|
Collector information |
- StratoProbe collector identity
- StratoProbe collector group ID
- StratoProbe collector group name
|
Installed applications |
|
BIOS |
- Version of the BIOS including major and minor version
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Storage |
- Number of partitions on this physical disk
- Interface type of physical disk
- SCSI bus number and identifier number of the disk drive
- Interface method with storage system
- List of storage partitions
|
Disk partition |
- Partition is the active partition
- File system on the logical disk
- Total size and free space size
|
Network card |
- DNS registration and full registration
- List of IP addresses on the network cards
|
Process |
- Process name and description
- Byte size of memory used for process execution
- Global process identifier
- Date the process begins executing
- Path to application executable
- Operating system running the process
- The order in which the process is scheduled
- The number of threads devoted to a process
|
Installed service (Windows only) |
- Path of the installed service
|
Memory usage
|
- Memory system description
- Number of cache faults per second
- Number of bytes currently committed
- Number of page faults, page reads, and pages viewed per second
- Number of page-write commands per second
- Percent of total available bytes committed
- Total bytes not in use by pages
- Total bytes in use by pages
- Total bytes in application
|
CPU usage
|
- Deferred procedure call rate
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Network performance
|
- Network framework caption
- Network framework description
- Bytes sent and received per second
- Bytes processed per second
- Total current network bandwidth
- Total errors in outbound packets
- Total packets processed per second
- Total errors in inbound packets
- Total packets received per second
- Total packets sent per second
|
Disk performance
|
- Average bytes per read, transfer, and write
- Average time in seconds per read, transfer, and write
- Average bytes processed per second
- Average bytes read per second
- Average read, transfer, and write commands per second
- Percent of disk time devoted to read commands
- Percent of disk time in use
- Percent of disk time devote to write commands
- Percent of disk time idle
- Split IO operations per second
- Kilobytes read per second
- Kilobytes written per second
|
Port data
|
- Associated service name and process ID
|
Disk volume (Windows only) |
- Supports file-based compression
|
SQL Server (Windows only, if installed) |
|
SQL Server (Database collection) |
- Stored User SSIS packages
- Always On Availability Used
- Windows Failover Cluster Used
- Databases with DQS Roles,
- Databases with Log Shipping
- Databases Using File Table
- Policy Management Policies Enabled
- External Scripts Enabled (ML/R)
- Compute Nodes Used (Polybase)
- CLR Procedures/Functions Used
- External Access Assemblies
|
Oracle (Database Collection) |
- Dbname, DbVersion, Dbsizes, RAC Instances, etc
- DBID, PDBIDs, PDBNames and Status
- InstanceName, Hostname, etc
- Compressed Tables By Owner
- Compressed Tables by CompressionType
- Used Storage by Owner by SegmentType
- Tablespaces Parameters and Fragmentation
- Summary by PDB by Owner of Table Constraints
- Storage by Tablespace by PDB
- Data Types by Owner by PDB
- DBLinkName, HostName by PDB
- Database Proprietary Features Being Used
- History of Cores Allocated
- ObjectTypes by Owner by PDB
- Number of Lines of Code by Type by Owner by PDB
- PartitionTableType by Owner by PDB
- IndexType by Owner by PDB
- Database Stats by Hour by PDB
- PSU, RUs,RURs Applied in the DB
- Database Stats by Hour by PDB
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MySQL (Database Collection) |
- Data about bInlog, DB Version, DB type/flavor (eg., MariaDB/Aurora
etc), Database directory, List of plugins, List of engines
- Configuration variables, Number of active connections, Sleeping vs
active connections
- Full text indexes, Tables with missing primary keys
- Connections by databases, applications and users
- Stored procedures, functions and definer clauses
|
PostgreSQL (Database Collection) |
- List of extensions. Needed for supportability in the destination
- Tables with missing primary keys
- Tables with missing primary keys
- Users/roles and privileges
- Users/roles and privileges
- Statistics about I/O on specific user tables
- Statistics about access to specific indexes on user tables
- List of indexes on user tables
- Listing of all replication slots that currently exist on the
database cluster
- Statistics about the background writer process's activity
- Information about function and stored procedures
- Information about function and stored procedures
- For connected applications
|
File/Folder name collection
(only path
collected not contents) |
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml
/etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh
/etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
/etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml
/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service
/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service
c:\program files\mysql\mysqld.exe
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GPU information
(Linux Only) |
|
GPU performance |
|
GPU running process |
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Appendix B: Data and files collected for container fit assessment
For more information about the container fit assessment tool, see
About the fit assessment tool.
Windows collection
Category |
Description |
Commands run |
registry::HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp
schtasks /query /V /FO CSV
reg.exe" "export hklm\system\CurrentControlSet\services
$svcRegPath /y
Get-WmiObject Win32_OperatingSystem
Get-WmiObject Win32_NetworkAdapter
Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystem
Get-WmiObject Win32_ComputerSystemProduct
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall -Recurse
-ErrorAction
- All subkeys in:
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
- All subkeys in:
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall
"$AWS_IMDS_BASE_URL/meta-data/$category" "GET"
"$GCP_IMDS_BASE_URL/$key" "GET" @{"Metadata-Flavor" = "Google"}
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Files collected |
C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\Config\*
C:\Windows\System32\Inetsrv\Config\applicationHost.config
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework*\v*\Config\*
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Linux collection
Category |
Description |
Commands run |
ps -o pid,user,%mem,comm,args -e
lsblk --json -p --output NAME,PARTFLAGS,PARTTYPE,UUID,LABEL,FSTYPE
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Files collected |
/proc/sys/kernel/hostname
/etc/dhcp/dhclient-up-hooks
/etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/*
/etc/systemd/resolved.conf
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/*
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/installed.xml
/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/properties/version/WAS.product
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Appendix C: Commands run by StratoProbe
Windows WMI collection
Category |
Description |
System information
|
- General information:
Win32_ComputerSystem
- CPU information:
Win32_Processor
- Operating system:
Win32_OperatingSystem
- BIOS information:
Win32_BIOS
- Hard drive information:
Win32_DiskDrive
- Window local volume information:
Win32_Volume
- Network card information:
Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
- Installed software:
Win32_Product
- If the installed software collection fails with
Win32_Product , StratoProbe scans the
following registry key:
\HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
- Running services:
Win32_Service
- SQL Server information:
SqlServiceAdvancedProperty
class in the
\root\microsoft\sqlserver\{SQLServerName} namespace
(Only when SQL Server Configuration Management is installed)
- Solution file information:
File System
- StratoProbe also scans for database solutions in the
following folders:
C:\data\db\ and
C:\ProgramData\mysql\
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Performance
|
- Disk performance:
Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfDisk_PhysicalDisk
- Network performance:
Win32_PerfFormattedData_TcpIp_NetworkInterface
- Process performance:
Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process
- CPU information:
Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Processor
- RAM information:
Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Memory
- GPU Running Performance information:
nvidia-smi via WMI
(Only when NVIDIA GPU is present)
- Process Performance information:
Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfProc_Process
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Dependency
|
- Running processes:
Win32_Process
- Open ports:
netstat –ano via WMI
- GPU information:
Win32_VideoController and Win32_Bus
- GPU running process information:
nvidia-smi via WMI
(Only when NVIDIA GPU is present)
|
Linux SSH collection
Category |
Description |
System Information
|
- Hostname
hostname -s
cat/proc/sys/kernel/hostname (alternate method)
echo $(hostname) (alternate method)
- Domain
hostname -d
cat/proc/sys/kernel/domainname (alternate method)
echo $(domainname) (alternate method)
awk '/^domain/ {print $2}' /etc/resolv.conf
(alternate method)
- Product name
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name
- CPU information
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor
arch
uname -m (alternate method for arch )
- Distro information
cat /etc/os-release
cat /etc/redhat-release
cat /etc/system-release
cat /etc/issue
cat /etc/*-release
- BIOS information
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_date
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_version
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/bios_vendor
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/smbios_version
- Hard drive information
df -T
cat/etc/fstab (alternate method for df )
env stat -f (alternate method for df )
- Network card information
/sbin/ip addr
netstat –nr
cat /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient.leases
cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
cat /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
cat /sys/class/net/*
- Solution files
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra-env.sh
/etc/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml
/etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra-env.sh
/etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra.yaml
/etc/hbase/conf/hbase-site.xml
/usr/bin/hbase/
/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service
/var/log/memcached.*
/data/db/
/etc/mongod.conf
/etc/my.cnf
/etc/mysql/my.cnf
/lib/systemd/system/mysql.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service
/var/lib/mysql/
/usr/sbin/mysqld/
/etc/postgresql/*/*
/usr/lib/postgresql/*
/var/lib/postgresql/*/*
/var/log/postgresql/
- Installed software in production
rpm -q -a --qf
dpkg -l (alternate method for rpm )
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Performance
|
- Disk performance:
cat
/proc/diskstats
- Network performance:
cat
/proc/net/dev
- CPU information:
top -n 1 -b
- RAM information:
top -n 1 -b
- GPU Performance information:
nvidia-smi --query-gpu
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Dependency
|
- Running processes:
top -n 1 -b
- GPU running process information:
nvidia-smi --query-compute-apps
- Open ports:
netstat -anop
ss -utanp (alternate method)
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