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# Strategy Recommendations data sources
Data sources

This section describes the data sources that Strategy Recommendations uses.

**Topics**
+ [Viewing data sources](viewing-data-sources.md)
+ [Application data collector](application-data-collector.md)
+ [Importing data](importing-data.md)
+ [Removing data](removing-data.md)

# Viewing Strategy Recommendations data sources
Viewing data sources

This section describes how to view Strategy Recommendations data sources in the AWS Management Console.

**To view data sources**

1. Using the AWS account that you created in [Setting up Strategy Recommendations](setting-up.md), sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Migration Hub console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub/).

1. In the Migration Hub console navigation pane, choose **Strategy** and then choose **Data sources**.

1. On the **Collectors** tab, you can view the Strategy Recommendations application data collectors that you set up. For more information about the collector, see [Strategy Recommendations application data collector](application-data-collector.md).

1. On the **Imports** tab, you can import data and view your data imports. For more information, see [Importing data into Strategy Recommendations](importing-data.md).

1. On the **Tools** tab, you can download the collector and application import data template.

# Strategy Recommendations application data collector
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](getting-started-dowmload-collector.md).

**Topics**
+ [Data collected by the collector](#data-collected-by-collector)
+ [Upgrading the collector](#upgrade-collector)

## Data collected by the Strategy Recommendations collector
Data collected by the 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\$1, 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](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/) and request full data deletion.

## Upgrading the Strategy Recommendations collector
Upgrading the 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
   ```

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

   ```
   cd  /home/ec2-user/collector/upgrades
   ```

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

   ```
   sudo bash application-data-collector-upgrade
   ```

# Importing data into Strategy Recommendations
Importing data

As an alternative to using the application data collector, you can import information about the applications and servers for which you want migration and modernization recommendations. 

When you import data, the recommendations are not as in-depth as they are when you use the data collector. For example, you cannot use source code analysis on imported data.

This section describes how to use the application import template to import data into Strategy Recommendations in the Migration Hub console.

**To import data**

1. Using the AWS account that you created in [Setting up Strategy Recommendations](setting-up.md), sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Migration Hub console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub/](https://console.aws.amazon.com/migrationhub/).

1. In the Migration Hub console navigation pane, choose **Strategy** and then choose **Data sources**.

1. Choose the **Imports** tab.

1. Choose **Download import template** to download the application import template.

1. Fill out the template and upload it to an Amazon S3 bucket. Ensure that name of the bucket begins with the prefix `migrationhub-strategy`.

1. Return to the **Imports** tab and then choose **Import**.

1. Enter a name for your import, enter the Amazon S3 object URI for your filled out data template and then choose **Start import**.

## The Strategy Recommendations import template
Import template

The import template that you download is a `.json` file as shown in the following example.

```
{
    "ImportFormatVersion": 1,
    "Resources": [
        {
            "ResourceType": "SERVER",
            "ResourceName": "",
            "ResourceId": "",
            "IpAddress": "",
            "OSDistribution": "",
            "OSType": "",
            "HostName": "",
            "OSVersion": "",
            "CPUArchitecture": ""
        },
        {
            "ResourceType": "PROCESS",
            "ResourceName": "",
            "ResourceId": "",
            "ApplicationType": "",
            "DotNetFrameworkVersion": "",
            "ApplicationVersion": "",
            "DotNetCoreVersion": "",
            "JdkVersion": "",
            "ProgrammingLanguage": "",
            "DatabaseType": "",
            "DatabaseVersion": "",
            "DatabaseEdition": "",
            "AssociatedServerIds": []
        }
    ]
}
```

To help you fill out the import template, the valid values for the data fields are listed in the following tables.

The required fields for servers are listed in the following table. 


| Name | Description | Type | Required | Valid values | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| ResourceId | A unique ID for the resource | String | Yes | Any unique string | 
| ResourceName | The name of the resource | String | Yes | Any string | 
| ResourceType | The type of resource to import | String | Yes | "Server", "Process" | 
| OSDistribution | Windows, Windows Server, Ubuntu | String | Yes |  **Windows:** "Windows PC" , "Windows Server"  **Linux:** "Ubuntu", "RHEL", "Amazon Linux", "DEBIAN", "SLES", "CENT\$1OS" , "ORACLE\$1LINUX", "FEDORA", "KALI" | 
| OSType | The type of operating system | String | Yes | "Windows", "Linux" | 
| OSVersion | The kernel version | String | Yes |  **Windows kernel version:** "Windows Kernel Version 3.1", "Windows Kernel Version 3.5", "Windows Kernel Version 3.51", "Windows Kernel Version 4.0", "Windows Kernel Version 5.0", "Windows Kernel Version 5.1", "Windows Kernel Version 5.2", "Windows Kernel Version 6.0", "Windows Kernel Version 6.1", "Windows Kernel Version 6.2", "Windows Kernel Version 6.3", "Windows Kernel Version 10.0" **Windows server version:** "Windows NT 3.1", "Windows NT 3.5", "Windows NT 3.51", "Windows NT 4.0", "Windows Server 2000", "Windows Server 2003", "Windows Server 2003 R2", "Windows Server 2008", "Windows Server 2008 R2", "Windows Server 2012", "Windows Server 2012 R2", "Windows Server 2016", "Windows Server 2019", "Windows Server 1709", "Windows Server 1803", "Windows Server 1809", "Windows Server 1903", "Windows Server 1909", "Windows Server 2004" **Ubuntu:** "Ubuntu 4.10", "Ubuntu 5.04", "Ubuntu 5.10", "Ubuntu 6.06", "Ubuntu 6.10","Ubuntu 7.04", ,"Ubuntu 7.10", "Ubuntu 8.04", "Ubuntu 8.10", "Ubuntu 9.04", "Ubuntu 9.10", "Ubuntu 10.04", "Ubuntu 10.10", "Ubuntu 11.04", "Ubuntu 11.10, "Ubuntu 12.04", "Ubuntu 12.10", "Ubuntu 13.04", "Ubuntu 13.10", "Ubuntu 14.04", "Ubuntu 14.10", "Ubuntu 15.04", "Ubuntu 15.10", "Ubuntu 16.04", "Ubuntu 16.10", "Ubuntu 17.04", "Ubuntu 17.10", "Ubuntu 18.04", "Ubuntu 18.10", "Ubuntu 19.04", "Ubuntu 19.10", "Ubuntu 20.04", "Ubuntu 20.10", "Ubuntu 21.04"  **RHEL:** "RHEL 2.1", "RHEL 2.1 Update 1", "RHEL 2.1 Update 2", "RHEL 2.1 Update 3", "RHEL 2.1 Update 4", "RHEL 2.1 Update 5", "RHEL 2.1 Update 6", "RHEL 2.1 Update 7", "RHEL 3", "RHEL 3 Update 1", "RHEL 3 Update 2", "RHEL 3 Update 3", "RHEL 3 Update 4", "RHEL 3 Update 5", "RHEL 3 Update 6", "RHEL 3 Update 7", "RHEL 3 Update 8", "RHEL 3 Update 9", "RHEL 4", "RHEL 4 Update 1", "RHEL 4 Update 2", "RHEL 4 Update 3", "RHEL 4 Update 4", 4, "RHEL 4 Update 5", "RHEL 4 Update 6", , "RHEL 4 Update 7", "RHEL 4 Update 8", "RHEL 4 Update 9", "RHEL 5", "RHEL 5.1", "RHEL 5.2", "RHEL 5.3", "RHEL 5.4", "RHEL 5.5",, "RHEL 5.6", "RHEL 5.7","RHEL 5.8", "RHEL 5.9", "RHEL 5.10", "RHEL 5.11", "RHEL 6", "RHEL 6.1", "RHEL 6.2", "RHEL 6.3", "RHEL 6.4", "RHEL 6.5", "RHEL 6.6", "RHEL 6.7", "RHEL 6.8", "RHEL 6.9", "RHEL 6.10", "RHEL 7 Beta", "RHEL 7", "RHEL 7.1", "RHEL 7.2", "RHEL 7.3", "RHEL 7.4", "RHEL 7.5", "RHEL 7.6", "RHEL 7.7", "RHEL 7.8", "RHEL 7.9", "RHEL 8", "RHEL 8.1", "RHEL 8.2", "RHEL 8.3"  **DEBIAN:** "Debian 0.91", "Debian 0.93R5", "Debian 0.93R6", "Debian 1.1", "Debian 1.2", "Debian 1.3", "Debian 1.3.1", "Debian 1.3.1 r.6", "Debian 2.0", "Debian 2.0r1", "Debian 2.0r2", "Debian 2.0r3", "Debian 2.0r4", "Debian 2.0r5", "Debian 2.1r0", "Debian 2.1r1", "Debian 2.1r2", "Debian 2.1r3", "Debian 2.1r4", "Debian 2.1r5", "Debian 2.2r0", "Debian 2.2r1"," Debian 2.2r2", "Debian 2.2r3", "Debian 2.2r4", "Debian 2.2r5", "Debian 2.2r6", "Debian 2.2r7", "Debian 3.0r0", "Debian 3.0r1", "Debian 3.0r2", "Debian 3.0r3", "Debian 3.0r4", "Debian 3.0r5", "Debian 3.0r6", "Debian 3.1r0", "Debian 3.1r1", "Debian 3.1r2", "Debian 3.1r3", "Debian 3.1r4", "Debian 3.1r5", "Debian 3.1r6", "Debian 3.1r7", "Debian 3.1r8", "Debian 4.0r0", "Debian 4.0r1", "Debian 4.0r2", "Debian 4.0r3", "Debian 4.0r4", "Debian 4.0r5", "Debian 4.0r6", "Debian 4.0r7", "Debian 4.0r8", "Debian 4.0r9", "Debian 5.0.0", "Debian 5.0.1", "Debian 5.0.2", "Debian 5.0.3", "Debian 5.0.4", "Debian 5.0.5", "Debian 5.0.6", "Debian 5.0.7", "Debian 5.0.8", "Debian 5.0.9", "Debian 5.0.10", "Debian 6.0.0", "Debian 6.0.1", "Debian 6.0.2", "Debian 6.0.3", "Debian 6.0.4", "Debian 6.0.5", "Debian 6.0.6", "Debian 6.0.7", "Debian 6.0.8", "Debian 6.0.9", "Debian 6.0.10", "Debian 7.0.0", "Debian 7.1", "Debian 7.2", "Debian 7.3", "Debian 7.4", "Debian 7.5", "Debian 7.6", "Debian 7.7", "Debian 7.8", "Debian 7.9", "Debian 7.10", "Debian 7.11", "Debian 8.0", "Debian 8.1", "Debian 8.2", "Debian 8.3", "Debian 8.4", "Debian 8.5", "Debian 8.6", "Debian 8.7", "Debian 8.8", "Debian 8.9", "Debian 8.10", "Debian 8.11", "Debian 9.0", "Debian 9.1", "Debian 9.2", "Debian 9.3", "Debian 9.4", "Debian 9.5", "Debian 9.6", "Debian 9.7", "Debian 9.8", "Debian 9.9", "Debian 9.10", "Debian 9.11", "Debian 9.12", "Debian 9.13", "Debian 10.0", "Debian 10.1", "Debian 10.2", "Debian 10.3", "Debian 10.4", "Debian 10.5"   | 
| CPUArchitecture | The CPU architecture | String | No | "32bit", "64bit" | 
| IpAddress | The IP address of the server | Array | No | In the format xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | 
| MacAddresses | The Mac addresses associated with the server | Array | No | In the format xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx | 
| Hostname | The name of the host | String | No | Any string | 

The required fields for processes are listed in the following table. 


| Name | Description | Type | Required | Valid values | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| ResourceId | A unique ID for the resource | String | Yes | Any unique string | 
| ResourceName | The name of the resource | String | Yes | Any string | 
| ResourceType | The type of resource to import | String | Yes | "Server", "Process" | 
| AssociatedServerIds | A list of server IDs on which the process is running. | String | Yes | The ResourceId from the "ResourceType": "SERVER" that you defined. | 
| ApplicationType | The type of application | String | Yes | "Tomcat", "JBoss", "Spring", "IIS", "Mongo DB", "DB2", "Maria DB", "MySQL", "Oracle", "SQLServer", "Sybase", "PostgreSQLServer", "Cassandra", "IBM WebSphere", "Oracle WebLogic", "Java Generic" | 
| ApplicationVersion | The version of the application | String | Yes | "IIS 1.0", "IIS 2.0", "IIS 3.0", "IIS 4.0", "IIS 5.0", "IIS 5.1", "IIS 6.0", "IIS 7.0", "IIS 7.5", "IIS 8.0", "IIS 8.5", "IIS 10.0" | 
| ProgrammingLanguage | The programming language for the application | String | No | "Java", "CSharp" | 
| DotNetFrameworkVersion | The version of .NET Framework if the application is .NET Framework based  | String | No | "DotnetFramework 1.0", "DotnetFramework 1.0 SP1", "DotnetFramework 1.0 SP2", "DotnetFramework 1.0 SP3", "DotnetFramework 1.1", "DotnetFramework 1.1 SP1", "DotnetFramework 2.0", "DotnetFramework 2.0 SP1", "DotnetFramework 2.0 SP2", "DotnetFramework 3.0", "DotnetFramework 3.0 SP1", "DotnetFramework 3.0 SP2", "DotnetFramework 3.5", "DotnetFramework 3.5 SP1", "DotnetFramework 4.0", "DotnetFramework 4.5", "DotnetFramework 4.5.1", "DotnetFramework 4.5.2", "DotnetFramework 4.6", "DotnetFramework 4.6.1", "DotnetFramework 4.6.2", "DotnetFramework 4.7", "DotnetFramework 4.7.1", "DotnetFramework 4.7.2", "DotnetFramework 4.8" | 
| DotNetCoreVersion | The version of .NET Core if the application is .NET Core based | String | No | ".NET Core 1.0", ".NET Core 1.1", ".NET Core 2.0", ".NET Core 2.1", ".NET Core 2.2", ".NET Core 3.0", ".NET Core 3.1" | 
| JdkVersion | The version of the JDK, if the application uses the JDK | String | No | "JDK1.0", "JDK2.0", "JDK3.0", …, "JDK11.0" | 
| DatabaseType | The type database | String | No | "SQLServer", "Oracle", "Sybase", "Mongo DB", "Maria DB", "Apache Cassandra", "MySQL", "IBM DB2", "PostgreSQLServer" | 
| DatabaseEdition | The edition of the database | String | No |  **SQLServer** "Microsoft SQL Server Standard", "Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise", "Microsoft SQL Server Workgroup", "Microsoft SQL Server Developer", "Microsoft SQL Server Web", "Microsoft SQL Server Express" **Oracle** "Oracle Server Standard One Edition", "Oracle Server Standard Edition", "Oracle Server Enterprise Edition", "Oracle Server Express Edition", "Oracle Server Personal Edition" | 
| DatabaseVersion | The version of the database | String | No |  **SQLServer** "Microsoft SQL Server 2000", "Microsoft SQL Server 2005", "Microsoft SQL Server 2008", "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2", "Microsoft SQL Server 2012", "Microsoft SQL Server 2014", "Microsoft SQL Server 2016", "Microsoft SQL Server 2017", "Microsoft SQL Server 2019" **Oracle** "Oracle Database 9i Release 1", "Oracle Database 9i Release 2", "Oracle Database 10g Release 1", "Oracle Database 10g Release 2", "Oracle Database 11g Release 1", "Oracle Database 11g Release 2", "Oracle Database 12c Release 1", "Oracle Database 12c Release 2", "Oracle Database 18c","Oracle Database 19c", "Oracle Database 21c" **Sybase** "SAP ASE Version 12.5", "SAP ASE Version 15.0", "SAP ASE Version 15.5", "SAP ASE Version 15.7", "SAP ASE Version 16.0" **Mongo DB** "MongoDB 3.0", "MongoDB 3.2", "MongoDB 3.4", "MongoDB 3.6", "MongoDB 3.8", "MongoDB 4.0", "MongoDB 4.2" **Maria DB,** "MariaDB Server 5.5", "MariaDB Server 10.1", "MariaDB Server 10.2", "MariaDB Server 10.3", "MariaDB Server 10.4", "MariaDB Server 10.5", "MariaDB Server 10.6" **Apache Cassandra** "Apache Cassandra 2.1.20", "Apache Cassandra 2.1.21", "Apache Cassandra 2.1.22", "Apache Cassandra 2.2", "Apache Cassandra 3.0", "Apache Cassandra 3.1.1", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.1", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.2", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.3", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.4", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.5", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.6", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.7", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.8", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.9", "Apache Cassandra 3.11.10", "Apache Cassandra 4.0"  **MySQL** "MySQL Version 5.1", "MySQL Version 5.5", "MySQL Version 5.6", "MySQL Version 5.7","MySQL Version 8.0" **IBM DB2** "Db2 Version 9.1", "Db2 Version 9.5","Db2 Version 9.7", "Db2 Version 9.8","Db2 Version 10.1", "Db2 Version 10.5", "Db2 Version 11.1", "Db2 Version 11.5" **PostgreSQLServer** "PostgreSQL Server 8.1", "PostgreSQL Server 8.2", "PostgreSQL Server 8.3", "PostgreSQL Server 8.4", "PostgreSQL Server 9.1", "PostgreSQL Server 9.2", "PostgreSQL Server 9.3", "PostgreSQL Server 9.4", "PostgreSQL Server 9.5"), "PostgreSQL Server 9.6", "PostgreSQL Server 10", "PostgreSQL Server 11", "PostgreSQL Server 12", "PostgreSQL Server 13"  | 

# Removing your data from Strategy Recommendations
Removing data

To have all your data removed from Migration Hub Strategy Recommendations, contact [AWS Support](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/).