Cloud accounts

This section describes how to manage your cloud accounts in LoadRunner Enterprise.

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Cloud accounts overview

After establishing a cloud provider account, you must also establish a cloud account in LoadRunner Enterprise. When defining a cloud account in LoadRunner Enterprise, you enter your cloud provider credentials and associate projects to the account.

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Adding a cloud account

This task describes how to add a cloud account.

1. Prerequisites

   To add a cloud account to LoadRunner Enterprise, you must have an existing cloud account with a supported cloud provider.

   After you have your cloud account ready, you need to record the following information from your Amazon EC2 account:

   • Account Access Key.

   • Account Secret Key.

   • Account Number.

2. Add a cloud account to LoadRunner Enterprise

   1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Configuration > Cloud.

   2. In the Accounts tab, click Add Cloud Account, and enter a name for the cloud account. Amazon EC2 is displayed as the cloud provider.

   3. Enter the account access key, secret key, and account number for your Amazon EC2 cloud account.

      Click Save to add the cloud account to LoadRunner Enterprise. The cloud account is added to the grid.

      Note: The account creation process may take several minutes to complete.

   You can now create templates and provision hosts from this cloud account.

3. Continue with Link projects to your cloud account.

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Link projects to your cloud account

Every project that needs to provision hosts from a cloud account created in LoadRunner Enterprise must be linked to that account.

To link projects to a cloud account created in LoadRunner Enterprise:

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Configuration > Cloud.

2. In the Accounts grid, select the cloud account you want to link.

3. Click Assign Projects, and select the projects you want to link to the cloud account from the grid.

4. Click Assign. This links the selected projects to the cloud account.

All linked projects may now provision cloud hosts from the selected cloud account.

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View or edit cloud account details

This task describes how to view or edit a cloud account.

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Configuration > Cloud.

2. In the Accounts grid, click the name link of the cloud account you want to view or edit.

3. The Edit Cloud Account page opens, and displays the following:

   UI Element	Description
   Account Name	The name you choose for the cloud account.
   Description	A description of the cloud account.
   Account ID	The ID of the account. Generated automatically by LoadRunner Enterprise at the time the account is added.
   Main Details Tab
   Provider	Amazon EC2 is displayed as the cloud provider. Note:LoadRunner Enterprise currently only integrates with Amazon EC2 cloud accounts.
   Active Hosts	The number of currently provisioned hosts from this account.
   Access Key	Allows LoadRunner Enterprise to connect to your cloud account. Given to you by your cloud account provider.
   Account Number	The Amazon EC2 account number. This number is used to access custom images from the cloud account. Note: Adding an incorrect account number will result in the inability to access custom images related to this account.
   Created By	The user who created the account.
   Assigned Projects	The projects that have been assigned to the cloud account. Assign projects to cloud account. Opens the Assign Projects to Cloud Account dialog box, enabling you to select projects that can provision from this cloud account. Unassign Project From Cloud Account. Prevents the selected projects from provisioning from this cloud account. Project Name. Displays projects linked to the cloud account.
   Event Logs Tab The Event Log displays the events that occur in creating the cloud account and the severity of each event. Available in version: LoadRunner Enterprise 2020 SP1 and later.
   ID	The event ID.
   Event Type	An indication of the event's severity. From most to least severe: error, warning, or info.
   Created on Date	The date and time the event was logged.
   Project name	The project in which the event occurred.
   Action	The category of action where the event occurred. For example, Create Server.
   Name	The name of the process.
   Description	A description of the event.
   Owner	The user, or automated system process responsible for the event.

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Cloud network settings

If you need to configure cloud network settings for communicating from LoadRunner Enterprise to your cloud provider and for communicating with your cloud-based load generators, click Cloud Network Settings, and follow the instructions in Configure cloud network settings.

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Export cloud account details to an Excel file

To export information from the cloud accounts grid to an Excel file, click . Data from the grid is saved to an Excel file and downloaded to the Downloads folder of the client user.

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Delete a cloud account

This task describes how to delete a cloud account.

1. In LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, select Configuration > Cloud.

2. Select a cloud account in the grid, and click Delete. The cloud account and all host templates using the cloud account are deleted.

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See also:

• Host templates
• Video: Cloud load generators on AWS