GettingYourKeys

Obtaining your Amazon Web Services (AWS) keys

In the kluster directory, type cat keys.sh. You should see output like the following:

# cat keys.sh
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=ABCDEFGIPFDASZFDAXYZ
export AWS_SECRET_KEY=ABCXPQB8LPOfDA9pbiUzFFDASFsAFDA3PFfpXYZ

These are just placeholders for your AWS access keys. If you don't have an AWS account already, create one at http://aws.amazon.com/. Then:

• Go to the "console" at https://console.aws.amazon.com/.
• Click your name on the top right, and click "Security Credentials"
• Make sure you are on the "Access Keys" tab (this should be the default)
• Obtain your access keys from here (you may have to click "show secret key")
• Put your Access Key Id after AWS_ACCESS_KEY= in keys.sh
• Put your Secret Access Key after AWS_SECRET_KEY= in keys.sh

Remember not to put a space after the equals sign (you knew this, right?)

These keys give the ec2 API tools authorization to do things in the Amazon cloud. Don't worry: the "kluster" tools won't magically start creating things in the cloud without your knowledge. It will be obvious when you are creating nodes and so on.

Now, source this file in your shell:

. vars.sh

This will in turn source keys.sh. We assume your shell is bash or something similar such as dash, or this won't work correctly. The file vars.sh contains the things required for Amazon's ec2 API tools to work, plus sets your path. Next, type

ec2din

This is the short form of the command ec2-describe-instances, which will output information about any machines you have running in the Amazon cloud. If it gives you an error message, try to fix it before proceeding. This will be a problem with your ec2 API tools installation or your access keys.

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[abbaskarimi]

type ec2din in terminal in address root/kluster or root/kluster/ec2-api-tools-1.6.9.0/bin ?

[Daniel Povey]

I must have assumed that you have the bin directory on your path at that point.
Do the instructions not tell you to do something like source a shell
script that sets the path?
Dan

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:23 AM, abbaskarimi abbaskarimi@users.sf.net wrote:

type ec2din in terminal in address roor/kluster or
root/kluster/ec2-api-tools-1.6.9.0/bin ?

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