Connecting to AWS EC2 Instances

[userman73]

I am trying to monitor instances of EC2 on my AWS account. It says "The Access Key ID of the instance to be monitored.", but the only "Access Key ID" I know about is the Access Key to make calls to the AWS CLI.

[scottwilkerson]

I am trying to monitor instances of EC2 on my AWS account. It says "The Access Key ID of the instance to be monitored.", but the only "Access Key ID" I know about is the Access Key to make calls to the AWS CLI.

That is the Access Key ID it is referring to.

[userman73]

I fill in the information, but on the next page, I am presented with an empty table.

[scottwilkerson]

I fill in the information, but on the next page, I am presented with an empty table.

Before clicking next did you click the "Get Available Instances" in the blue box?

[userman73]

Yes, and it says "There were no instances found. Verify your AWS credentials and try again."

[scottwilkerson]

Hmm, are you sure you have valid access key and secret? Does this XI server have remote access to the Internet to reach AWS?

If so can you run the following from the command line and show the output (replacing ACCESSKEYID and SECRET)?

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/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ec2.py --getinstances --accesskeyid='ACCESSKEYID' --secretaccesskey='SECRET'

[userman73]

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[scottwilkerson]

Look's like:

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AWS was not able to validate the provided access credentials

Hmm, are you sure you have valid access key and secret?

Does this XI server have remote access to the Internet to reach AWS?

[userman73]

Yes and Yes.

[scottwilkerson]

Are you sure these keys have the ability to call the DescribeRegions AWS API Call?