Administering your Amazon EC2 Ubuntu Linux instance with remote access from Linux

Once you've created an Amazon EC2 instance running ArcGIS for Server, you can log in and begin configuring data and services on the instance.

Steps:

1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and click Instances.
2. In the My Instances list, find your instance and make sure it is started.
3. In the My Instances list, click your instance and examine the detailed information that appears below. Note or copy the name given for Public DNS.
4. Open any SSH client (such as PuTTY).
5. Locate your private key file that you specified when you created the instance, for example, arcgisserver.pem.
6. Use chmod to make sure your key file isn't publicly viewable. Otherwise, SSH won't work:
   chmod 400 arcgisserver.pem
   

7. Connect to your EC2 instance using its public DNS as the arcgis user. For example, enter the following command:
   ssh –i arcgisserver.pem [e-mail]
   

8. Become the arcgis user and authorize ArcGIS for Server by running the authorizeSoftware script. You'll need to reference an Esri license file (.ecp).
   arcgis@ip-10-82-222-58:$ cd /arcgis/server/tools/
   arcgis@ip-10-82-222-58:/arcgis/server/tools$ ./authorizeSoftware <license_file (ecp file)>
   

9. ArcGIS for Server is ready for you to create a site.
   Dive-in:

   Every time you stop and start the instance, Amazon assigns your instance a new machine name and Public DNS name/IP Address. Therefore, it is not helpful to create shortcuts or hard-coded references to your instance unless you have configured an Amazon Elastic IP for your instance and you reassociate this IP every time you start the instance.