Set up AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent)

[KatherinePowell-NOAA]

Create a dashboard using the SSM in AWS NOS Cloud Sandbox environment (Systems Manager) to update, manage, and configure these resources. See (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/ssm-agent.html)

[KatherinePowell-NOAA]

Zach deployed a new / draft dashboard for the sandbox (only the IOOS-Bastian host for now). This is a draft - there are more instances and file systems to be added through the Inventory. It will not use up compute cycles. The dashboard can allow access to view EC2 instances, view user activity, etc. It allows a new way to access the AWS instance outside of the Putty or other login route, especially helpful if there are ever issues that require the instance to be restarted.

[KatherinePowell-NOAA]

From Zach: You can now get directly to the headnode from the AWS Console

[tcvance]

From the original notes:
To login to AWS (which only seems to work with Firefox for me):
https://noaa-prod.awsapps.com/start/#/?tab=accounts
Zach initially created a dashboard: <Test_Dashboard link>
[This dashboard is missing]
The newer one:
[Gives me a generic dashboard].

Ok, managed to stumble upon which is now showing me what I expected to see.
I am most puzzled why the same URL produces two rather different outputs?

NOTE: Katherine edited to remove the actual dashboard links - which are in the notes and the Trello card

[breannalcv]

Create and improve the Monitoring Dashboard