Connecting to your Instance

To connect to your SoftNAS® Instance is simple, provided you are on the same network as your virtual machine, or have a public facing IP address. For this proof of concept, the steps to create the public facing IP address you will need to connect were covered in Adding an Elastic IP.

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You are now ready to configure your SoftNAS Instance.

Configuring Your Instance

Once connected to your instance, there are several common configuration steps which may or may not be required, depending on your use case. While not all of these steps are required (many of them are covered by default by configuration in AWS), you should at least be familiar with them, should they be required later. The Getting Started Checklist provides a guide to these tasks.

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Note: Providing a notification email is a requirement. If you do not provide one during instance configuration, you will be required to provide one prior to configuring SnapReplicate™. 

Note: Support Reports and notifications will be sent to SoftNAS support automatically. The notification email is to ensure the administrator for the instance is kept apprised. 

Adding the Essentials License

If using a BYOL version of SoftNAS® Essentials, you may need to apply an Essentials license. Contact sales@softnas.com in order to obtain your Essentials license.

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