Breeze - Overview & Requirements

The Breeze Agent (v1) is a scheduled task that streams OS-level data (users, services, mount points, etc.) into Cloudaware CMDB and seamlessly enables other Cloudaware modules such as Intrusion Detection (IDS), Vulnerability Scanning, Patch Management, CIS Benchmarking, Event Monitoring.

Supported OS

Amazon Linux 2012.09 and newer
RHEL/CentOS 5 and newer
Debian 7 and newer
Ubuntu 10.04 and newer
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and newer, except for Microsoft Windows Server Core installations
macOS

Supported Architectures

Linux: x86_64 and arm64(aarch64)
Windows: x86_64
macOS: x86_64 and arm64

Windows-Specific Requirements

For Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), ensure that:

WMI is enabled
Windows Management Instrumentation service (winmgmt) is running

Breeze uses WMI to collect the following data from Windows hosts:

Operating system version and product type
Service discovery and management

If WMI is unavailable, affected plugins log errors and skip WMI-dependent data collection. Other agent functionality (disk, processes, users, Windows Updates) uses native Win32 APIs and is not affected.

Required Network Dependencies

Breeze requires outbound internet access on the port TCP 443 only
Breeze does not require any inbound connections and can be deployed on private networks and servers with no public IP addresses
Breeze supports IPv4 and IPv6
On AWS, Azure and GCP, the instance metadata must be enabled and accessible to the Breeze agent (access to 169.254.169.254 should be granted)

If you need to lock down outbound access to a specific domain name, contact your Technical Account manager or support@cloudaware.com.