Amazon Web Services¶
The following section explains possible ways to install MeshCentral onto Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances.
For reference: Amazon Web Services.
Amazon Linux 2¶
For Amazon EC2 users, that want to manage 100 devices or less. Launch a t3.nano or t3.micro EC2 instance with Amazon Linux 2 with TCP ports 22 (SSH), 80 (HTTP), 443 (HTTPS) and 4433 (CIRA) open.
The difference betweeen the two scripts below is that the first script meant for lightweight instances does not contain an extenral database, therefor it uses its internal NeDB-database.
Then login as ec2-user and enter the following commands:
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If you want to live on the edge:
curl https://meshcentral.com/scripts/mc-aws-linux2.sh | bash.
This will download the Bash install script and once ran, will install NodeJS, MeshCentral, setup systemd and start the MeshCentral server.
For a larger instance like a t3.small, t3.medium or larger you can run the following that does the same but also installs MongoDB.
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If you want to live on the edge:
curl https://meshcentral.com/scripts/mc-aws-linux2-mongo.sh | bash.
After these scripts are run, try accessing the server using a browser. MeshCentral will take a minute or two to create certificates after that, the server will be up. The first account to be created will be the site administrator – so don’t delay and create an account right away. Once running, move on to the MeshCentral’s user’s guide to configure your new server.