Aster Vale

Integrations

Four ways data reaches the Register. Most customers use two of them and never touch the others.

File import

CSV and spreadsheet import with column mapping saved as a reusable profile. Unglamorous, and still the most common way a register gets populated for the first time — the information usually already exists in a spreadsheet somebody maintains.

Re-importing an updated file produces a difference rather than a duplicate: new entries, changed fields and entries that have disappeared from the source, each accepted or rejected individually.

Scheduled connectors

Connectors run on a schedule and populate entries automatically. They are organised by category rather than by product, because the category is what determines the shape of the data:

CategoryWhat it contributes
Cloud platformsCompute, storage, database and network resources with tags and account structure
Configuration managementExisting CMDB entries, service definitions, ownership records
Ticketing and service deskService catalogue entries, change history, incident linkage
Monitoring and observabilityService names in active use, and dependencies inferred from call patterns
Identity providersGroup and role membership for ownership validation
Contract and vendor managementVendor records, renewal dates, support tier
Backup and recoveryProtection coverage and last successful restore point

A connector never overwrites a human-entered field silently. Where a connector's value disagrees with what someone recorded, both are kept and the difference is raised for a decision. Automated data is good at completeness and poor at intent; the register needs both.

Read API

A read-oriented HTTP API returning inventory, dependency and evidence records as JSON. Authentication is by scoped token. Tokens are read-only by default and can be restricted to particular record types.

The API exists mainly so the register is not a dead end. Teams query it to check ownership during change review, to include continuity data in internal reporting, and to answer the recurring question of what depends on a system somebody wants to decommission.

Webhooks

Outbound notifications on the events worth reacting to: a review falls overdue, an owner is removed from the directory that supplied them, a dependency is added to a Tier 1 system, an export is generated.

A note on connector coverage

We do not publish a logo wall. Connector coverage changes, and a list of supported products tends to be read as a commitment rather than a snapshot. If a specific source matters to you, ask — the answer is either that it works today, that the file import path covers it, or that it does not and we will say so.