Amazon EC2 Installation guide
1. Overview
This guide will provide step by step instructions how to start using the installed products on your AWS EC2 instance.
This AMI contains a ready-to-run MidVision RapidDeploy for Virtual Network Appliance image at the selected version. In order to use this image, you need to launch it with your selected type. Once launched, the DataPower console will then be ready to access.
2. Launching an instance
In order to launch a MidVision RapidDeploy for Virtual Network Appliance instance, a few settings need to be configured on the AWS console as follows.
The instructions for launching an instance differ depending on where you launch from. Initially you will launch the instance from the AWS Marketplace.
You can also view the YouTube video which will take you through the launch and configuration steps for this AMI.
Follow the step-by-step YouTube video to launch and configure your IBM DataPower + MidVision RapidDeploy instance.
- Select the product based on your requirements in the AWS Marketplace;
- Click on the link to go to that versions page in AWS Marketplace;
- Check the ‘
Other Versions‘ link to see other versions available (you can select the actual version later). - Under ‘
Pricing Details‘ panel select your Region and either Hourly or Yearly fees. - Click on the ‘
Continue‘, button to go to the ‘1-Click Launch‘ tab on the configuration page; - On the ‘
Software Pricing‘ panel choose your instance type and pricing type; - On the ‘
Version‘ panel, select the fix pack version you require; - On the ‘
Region‘ panel, select the Region you require; - On the ‘
EC2 Instance Type‘ panel, choose the instance type. Them3.largetype or larger is recommended when running IBM DataPower Virtual Edition.Larger instances may be required based on the throughput and number of Domains etc required and the expected resource use of each; - On the ‘
VPC Settings‘ panel Configure the VPC settings to your requirements or leave the defaults; - On the ‘
Security Group‘ panel, specify the security group. The security group needs to permit to following ports [note that the internal firewall will be configured later to permit only ports used by WebSphere]:Port 22 to connect via SSH (enabled by default) to the instance hosting the DataPower Virtual Edition, Port 9990 to reach the IBM Datapower Virtual Edition Gateway Console, Port 5550 to reach the IBM DataPower XML Management Interface (XMI) Port 9090 to reach RapidDeploy web console, Port 20000 and 20100 to open for RapidDeploy Remote Agent (optional)
- If you don’t already have a security group as above, go to your EC2 Control Panel and select ‘
Security Groups‘ under ‘Network & Security‘ - Click ‘
Create Security Group‘ button - To open all ports, Click ‘
Add Rule‘. - In the ‘
Type‘ dropdown, Specify ‘All TCP‘ or your preferred configuration. - In the ‘
Source‘ dropdown, Specify ‘Anywhere‘ or your preferred configuration.
- If you don’t already have a security group as above, go to your EC2 Control Panel and select ‘
- On the ‘
Key Pair‘ panel, select a key pair to use. You will need this key later to connect to the instance. - Scroll back to the top of the page and click ‘
Accept Software Terms and Launch with 1-Click‘. - The Instance will be Launched.
- Select the AMI based on your requirements;
- Right click on the AMI, or from the drop down menu, choose the ‘
Launch’ option; - On the ‘
Choose Instance Type‘ tab, choose the instance type. TheM3.largetype or larger is recommended when running IBM DataPower Virtual Edition.t2.mediumis the minimal requirement, which will be sufficient to run the instance but the response times may be quite poor. Larger instances may be required based on the throughput and number of Domains etc required and the expected resource use of each; Click ‘Next: Configure Instance Details‘. - On the ‘
Configure Instance‘ tab Configure the instance to your requirements or leave the defaults. Click ‘Next: Add Storage‘. - On the ‘
Add Storage‘ tab, add additional storage as required or leave as default. Click ‘Next: Tag Instance‘. - On the ‘
Tag Instance‘ tab, Tag your instance with a suitable name. Click ‘Next: Configure Security Group'. - On the ‘
Configure Security Group‘ tab, specify the security group. The security group needs to permit to following ports:Port 22 to connect via SSH (enabled by default) to the instance hosting the DataPower Virtual Edition, Port 9990 to reach the IBM Datapower Virtual Edition Gateway Console, Port 5550 to reach the IBM DataPower XML Management Interface (XMI) Port 9090 to reach RapidDeploy web console, Port 20000 and 20100 to open for RapidDeploy Remote Agent (optional)
- To open all ports, Click ‘
Add Rule‘. - In the ‘
Type‘ dropdown, Specify ‘All TCP‘ or your preferred configuration. - In the ‘
Source‘ dropdown, Specify ‘Anywhere‘ or your preferred configuration.
- To open all ports, Click ‘
- Click ‘
Review and Launch‘. - Review settings, then click ‘
Launch‘. - Add your key pair, Check the ‘Acknowledge key file access’ checkbox and click ‘
Launch Instance‘.
3. Initial login and setup
On Launching the instance, the IBM DataPower Virtual Edition application is also started automatically. You can log in to the IBM DataPower Gateway console without any further configuration.
If you don’t want to perform any bespoke configuration, skip this section and move on to section 4, “Accessing the Web Consoles”.
Note: If you log in straight after the instance is launched DataPower may not have finished starting up so you need to wait at least 5 minutes and then use credentials from section 4 to log in.
Once the instance has started up (you can see it by having ” 2/2 checks passed ” in EC2 console).
- Log onto the instance from the EC2 console or via SSH as the ‘
midvision’ user, using the key you selected above. For example:- From the EC2 console by clicking the “
Connect to your instance” button with username “midvision“, using the previously (instance launch-time) selected.pemkeyfile. - Via SSH from your desktop, for example
ssh -i ./MidVisionUSMC.pem midvision@ec2-52-87-198-23.compute-1.amazonaws.com
- From the EC2 console by clicking the “
- You should see the MidVision banner and then you are logged in as the midvision user.
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Welcome, this is MidVisionCloud DataPower Virtual Edition image first run configuration Note that you can rerun this configuration wizard again by executing /home/midvision/firstrunsetup.sh script Configuration steps 1. Set DataPower Virtual Edition password 2. Set RapidDeploy framework initial password 3. Open ports on RHEL firewall
Your default DataPower web console password for 'admin' user is set to i-ec6ddf76
Would you like to change it now [yes/no] ?
yes
Configuring password for DataPower 'admin' user Set password for DataPower user 'admin'. Submit blank for default value of the instance id: i-ec6ddf76 Make sure your password is at least 6 characters long - Type a password or leave blank for the default instance-id and hit [return]. Confirm the password. You should see the following output.
Setting DataPower password for user admin... spawn telnet 0 2200 Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to 0. Escape character is '^]'. ip-172-30-0-234.ec2.internal Unauthorized access prohibited. login: admin Password: ********** Welcome to IBM DataPower Gateway console configuration. Copyright IBM Corporation 1999-2016 Version: IDG.7.5.0.0 build 274960 on Mar 11, 2016 3:09:45 PM Serial number: 0000001 idg# configure terminal Global configuration mode idg(config)# user-password Enter old password: ********** Enter new password: ****** Re-enter new password: ****** Password for user 'admin' changed Cleared RBM cache idg(config)# exit idg# eConnection closed by foreign host. DataPower password successfully set
- Set initial password for RapidDeploy user “
mvadmin“. Hit [return] to accept the default of the instance id.Configuring password for RapidDeploy default user 'mvadmin' Set password for user 'mvadmin'. Submit blank for default value of the instance id: i-380002a3
- Open required firewall ports on Red Hat Linux firewall. Select ‘y’ and hit [return].
Open firewall ports for RapidDeploy (port 9090) and DataPower (port 9990) [y/n]?
- The wizard finishes with the following output:
Configuration finished, you may now start using DataPower (port 9990) and RapidDeploy (9090) service.
DataPower: https://ec2-54-237-237-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9990
RapidDeploy: ec2-54-237-237-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com:9090/MidVision
4. Accessing the web consoles
4.1 Access the IBM DataPower Gateway Console
To confirm installation, access the DataPower Gateway Console at:
https://[publicip]:9990/
You can log in to the console as “admin” using your ‘[instance-id]‘ as password.
The password defaults to the instance-id of the AWS instance, unless you changed it as part of section 3 above.
4.2 Access the RapidDeploy web console
RapidDeploy server and agent will start up automatically when you start your instance. You can access the web console on:
http://[publicip]:9090/MidVision
Note: make sure you have port 9090 open in your Security group when trying to access RapidDeploy web console. For the first time, you can set the password for the default username ” mvadmin “.
5. Maintaining the installation
- midvision: This is the default user, which you can log in as. It is permitted to use all SUDO rights. To switch to the root user, type “
sudo su“. - root: This is the superuser in linux systems. You can log in as any other user without using passwords. E.g: “
su ec2-user“, “su midvision“ - ec2-user: This user does not have SUDO rights. If you want to switch back to root user, type “
exit“, this will take you back to the previous user session.
RHEL instances are shipped with a firewall by default to protect your machine. For security reasons, the instance is only accessible via SSH (port 22) at first, so further ports can be opened on the firewall as needed. You will need to open all the ports in this internal firewall, which you have open in your Security group. There is a script placed in the user home of midvision (/home/midvision), which is also the starting location when logged in. You will need to be the root user to run this script. Example usage:
[midvision@ ] sudo ./open-firewall.sh 9990 Open firewall port 9990 iptables: Saving firewall rules to /etc/sysconfig/iptables:[ OK ]
There are a few scripts and other files in midvision and root users home directory, which will need to remain unchanged in order to keep the provided scripts working. There are a set of scripts in midvision home directory. Those scripts are executed when logging into the instance controlled by .bash_profile , but you can also execute them manually whenever they are needed. There are some hidden files used as well, .firstrun indicates that the setup wizard has already ran once, .dontask indicates that the user will not be prompted again for running the setuphost script (if chosen not to ask again), .host file is needed to determine the previously bound hostname to WebSphere service.
To restart RapidDeploy manually from the filesystem, use the rapiddeploy linux service. The RapidDeploy version is 5.0.5. RapidDeploy home is located at /var/rd/midvision Example usage:
[midvision@ ] sudo service rapiddeploystart start [midvision@ ] sudo service rapiddeploystart stop
The RapidDeploy server uses an in-memory database, so your RapidDeploy framework needs to be shut down properly to save your work. This happens when the instance is stopping or when calling the stop service manually from the command line. Note that on instance restart, unsaved data will be lost.
For security reasons, you will need to change the default password (default value is ‘[instance-id]‘) for user mvadmin. This will be requested the first time only when you log in to the RapidDeploy server.
6. Troubleshooting
6.1 Session loss during setup
If you lose your SSH connection to the target instance during the first run setup script execution (e.g. as a result of a network problem), we advise you to delete and recreate the EC2 instance and run the script again.
6.2 Cannot access the IBM DataPower Virtual Edition Gateway Console
Check that the default server is running, and you have correctly opened all the required ports on the firewall, especially 9990, and that your instance was created using a security group definition that allows TCP access to the instance on the required ports.
According to our experience these are common reasons why you cannot access the IBM DataPower Console:
1. Wrong instance type. Remember that we strongly recommend to use “large” or larger instance types for DataPower.
2. AWS security group configured incorrectly. Remember that you need to have at least 9990 port opened.
3. Wrong protocol used to access IBM DataPower console. “https://” is required.
6.3 Contacting MidVision support
Please visit our support website.