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Status Checking

In order to know that an instance is successfully launched, check its status.

  •  Click Instances in the left panel.
    All the instances related to the specific region will be displayed.
  •  When SoftNAS® is fully booted and is ready for initial configuration and use, the Status Checks column will show a green checkmark with the message that 2/2 checks passed: 

At this point, SoftNAS® instance is operational.

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Status Check Monitoring

Set CloudWatch alarms in order to be notified automatically whenever the metric data reaches a pre-defined level. Create a status check alarm

  •  On the EC2 Dashboard, click the Instances option in the left panel.

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  •  Select the instance to in which you wish to add CloudWatch a CloudWatch alarm.
  •  Navigate to the the Status Checks tab.


Tip
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titleStatus Checks

The Status Checks tab displays the information on the system status checks and instance status checks.


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Status Check Alarm

  •  Click Create Status Check Alarm. This will prompt the Create Alarm dialog.
  •  Check the box behind the Send a Notification to field. 

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  •  Click Create Topic to specify email addresses for all contacts involved. If only the admin needs to be notified, keep the default choice NotifyMe.

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  •  Check the box behind the Take the Action field to initiate the action to be taken in case of the metric reaching a certain level. Also check the box for the type of the action to be initiated as Stop or Terminate this instance. 
  •  Select the condition for defining the required metric from the Whenever drop down list and then from the description drop down list.
  •  The Is field is static at the setting Failing.
  •  Continue the condition for the number of executions for a period. 

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  •  Change the Name of alarm if desired. 
  •  Create Alarm.
The new CloudWatch alarm will be initiated.
 

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Status Checks & Alarms

Status Checking

In order to know that instance is successfully launched, check its status.

  •  Click Instances in the left panel.
    All the instances related to the specific region will be displayed.
     
  •  When SoftNAS® is fully booted and is ready for initial configuration and use, the Status Checks column will show a green checkmark with the message that 2/2 checks passed.
  •  At this point, SoftNAS® instance is operational. 
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  • From the Actions drop-down, select Create status check alarm.  This will present you with the Manage CloudWatch alarms page.

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  1. Select Create an alarm to create a new alarm.
  2. (OPTIONAL) - You can configure the alarm to send an email by sending a message to a specific Amazon SNS topic when the alarm is triggered.  Pricing for this service is dependent on factors such as endpoint type and region.
    1. Amazon SNS pricing can be found here.
    2. Information on how to create an Amazon SNS topic can be found here.
  3. (OPTIONAL) - Specify which action to take when the alarm is triggered.  The available options for this are Recover, Reboot, Stop, and Terminate.
  4. Specify the metric thresholds for the alarm.  Configure the requirements based on your companies needs.
  5. You can change the Alarm name here if preferred.
  6. Shows sample data for the selected metric using the selected data aggregation method.  If you wish, you can change the time range for which to view data.
  7. Once configuration is complete, click Create to finish the creation of your alarm.


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Do not add personally identifiable information (PII) or other confidential or sensitive information in Amazon SNS topic names.  Topic names are accessible to other Amazon Web Services, including CloudWatch Logs.  Topic names are not intended to be used for private or sensitive data.


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Next Step 

Create and Configure an Instance in AWS is the next step in the process of deploying SoftNAS on the Amazon Web Services cloud platform.