ArtifactType	Language	Platform	Tags
Excel spreadsheet with the full Azure environment	Powershell	Windows / Linux / Mac	Powershell, Azure, Inventory, Excel Report, Customer Engineer

Azure Resource Inventory

Azure Resource inventory (ARI) is a powerful powershell module that generates an Excel report of any Azure Environment you have read access.

This project is intend to help Cloud Admins and anyone that might need an easy and fast way to build a full Excel Report of an Azure Environment.

What's new ?

• Version 3.5 is here:
  • ARI Powershell Module
  • New Automation Account
  • Azure Rest API

Azure Resource Inventory Overview

Network Topology View

• An extra detail is that if you hover the mouse cursor over any resource in the Network Topology you get the resource details:

• This feature is available for any resource and even peering lines:

Organization View

Resources View

Version 3.5

Among the many improvements, there are two that will considerable change the way we use the script and type of data we are reporting:

1) Azure Resource Inventory (Powershell Module)

We expect this change will positively change the experience of installing and executing ARI:

Installing ARI:

Install-Module -Name AzureResourceInventory

Now to run the script just execute "Invoke-ARI" with the regular parameters:

Invoke-ARI 

2) Automation is now fully integrated within the ARI Module

The process to run Azure Resource Inventory using Automation Accounts was changed to fully integrate with the new ARI Module

The required steps are present in the: Automation Guide.

3) Azure Rest API

We are finally incorporating Azure REST API data into ARI.

At this time we are only including:

• Azure Support Tickets
• Azure Health Incidents
• Azure Advisor Score Data
• Reservation Recommendations

We expect this will open doors for extra types of data to be included in the script in the future.

3) Parameters

Parameter	Description	Usage
TenantID	Specify the tenant ID you want to create a Resource Inventory.	-TenantID <ID>
SubscriptionID	Specifies Subscription(s) to be inventoried.	-SubscriptionID <ID>
ManagementGroup	Specifies the Management Group to be inventoried(all Subscriptions on it)	-ManagementGroup <ID>
Lite	Specifies to use only the Import-Excel module and don't create the charts (using Excel's API)	-Lite
SecurityCenter	Include Security Center Data.	-SecurityCenter
SkipAdvisory	Do not collect Azure Advisory.	-SkipAdvisory
Automation	Required when running the script with Automation Account	-Automation
Overview	Used to change the Overview Sheet Charts (Available values are: 1 and 2)	-Overview
StorageAccount	Storage Account Name (Required when running the script with Automation Account)	-StorageAccount
StorageContainer	Storage Account Container Name (Required when running the script with Automation Account)	-StorageContainer
IncludeTags	Include Resource Tags.	-IncludeTags
Debug	Run in a Debug mode.	-Debug
DiagramFullEnvironment	Network Diagram of the entire environment	-DiagramFullEnvironment
Diagram	Create a Draw.IO Diagram.	-Diagram
SkipDiagram	To skip the diagrams creation	-SkipDiagram
DeviceLogin	Authenticating on Azure using the Device login approach	-DeviceLogin
AzureEnvironment	Choose between Azure environments > Registered Azure Clouds. Use az cloud list to get the list	-AzureEnvironment <NAME>
ReportName	Change the Default Name of the report. Default name: AzureResourceInventory	-ReportName <NAME>
ReportDir	Change the Default path of the report.	-ReportDir "<Path>"
Online	Use Online Modules. Scan Modules diretly in GitHub ARI Repository	-Online
ResourceGroup	Specifies one unique Resource Group to be inventoried, This parameter requires the -SubscriptionID to work.	-ResourceGroup <NAME>
AppId	Specifies the ApplicationID that is used to connect to Azure as service principal. This parameter requires the -TenantID and -Secret to work.	-AppId <ID>
Secret	Specifies the Secret that is used with the Application ID to connect to Azure as service principal. This parameter requires the -TenantID and -AppId to work. If -CertificatePath is also used the Secret value should be the Certifcate password instead of the Application secret.	-Secret <VALUE>
CertificatePath	Specifies the Certificate path that is used with the Application ID to connect to Azure as service principal. This parameter requires the -TenantID, -AppId and -Secret to work. The required certificate format is pkcs#12.	-CertificatePath <PATH>
TagKey	Specifies the tag key to be inventoried, This parameter requires the -SubscriptionID to work.	-TagKey <NAME>
TagValue	Specifies the tag value be inventoried, This parameter requires the -SubscriptionID to work.	-TagValue <NAME>
QuotaUsage	Quota Usage	-QuotaUsage

Examples

• For CloudShell:

  />./Invoke-ARI -Debug

• Powershell Desktop:

  />./Invoke-ARI -TenantID <Azure Tenant ID> 

  If you do not specify the Subscription Resource Inventory will be performed on all subscriptions for the selected tenant. To perform the inventory in a specific Tenant and subscription use -TenantID and -SubscriptionID parameter

    />./Invoke-ARI -TenantID <Azure Tenant ID> -SubscriptionID <Subscription ID>

• Including Tags:

  />./Invoke-ARI -TenantID <Azure Tenant ID> --IncludeTags

  By Default Azure Resource inventory do not include Resource Tags.

• Collecting Security Center Data:

  />./Invoke-ARI -TenantID <Azure Tenant ID> -SubscriptionID <Subscription ID> -SecurityCenter

  By Default Azure Resource inventory do not collect Security Center Data.

• Skipping Azure Advisor:

  />./Invoke-ARI -TenantID <Azure Tenant ID> -SubscriptionID <Subscription ID> -SkipAdvisory

  By Default Azure Resource inventory collects Azure Advisor Data.

• Skipping Network Diagram:

  />./Invoke-ARI -TenantID <Azure Tenant ID> -SkipDiagram

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine or CloudShell.

Supportability

Even the script might work in almost all environments. Some components (i.e the Topology Diagram) use some APIs and components only present in Windows environment.

Our Test Environment:

Tool	Version
Windows	11 22H2
Powershell	7.4.4

Prerequisites

Since the script is a Powershell Module, and we fully migrated az cli to powershell. No extra requirements are needed.

Just install the AzureResourceInventory Module and all the required modules will be automatically installed as well.

By default Azure Resource Inventory will call to install the required Powershell modules but you must have administrator privileges during the script execution.

Special Thanks for Doug Finke, the Author of Powershell ImportExcel Module.

⚠️ Warnings

Very Important: Azure Resource Inventory will not upgrade the current version of the Powershell modules.

Important: If you're running the script inside Azure CloudShell the final Excel will not have Auto-fit columns and you will see warnings during the script execution (but the results of your inventory will not be changed :)

Running the script

• Its really simple to use Azure Resource Inventory, all that you need to do is to invoke this cmdlet in PowerShell.

• Run "Invoke-ARI". In Azure CloudShell you're already authenticated. In PowerShell Desktop you will be redirected to Azure sign-in page.

• If you have privileges in multiple tenants you can specify the desired one by using "-TenantID" parameter or Azure Resource will scan all your tenants ID and ask you to choose one.

• After properly authenticated and with the TENANT selected, the Azure Resource Inventory will perform all the work of extracting and creating the inventory.

• The duration will vary according to the number of subscriptions and resources. In our tests we managed to generate in 5 minutes the inventory of a Tenant with 15 subscriptions and about 12000 resources.

• Azure ResourceInventory uses "C:\AzureResourceInventory" as default folder for PowerShell Desktop in Windows and "$HOME/AzureResourceInventory" for Azure CloudShell to save the final Excel file.

• This file will have the name "AzureResourceInventory_Report_yyyy-MM-dd_HH_mm.xlsx" where "yyyy-MM-dd_HH_mm" are the date and time that this inventory was created.

Versioning and changelog

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

We also keep the CHANGELOG.md file in repository to Document version changes and updates.

Authors

The main authors of this project are:

1. Claudio Merola (claudio.merola@microsoft.com)
2. Renato Gregio

Contributing

Please read our CONTRIBUTING.md which outlines all of our policies, procedures, and requirements for contributing to this project.

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About the tool

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