title: “Amazon EC2 Setup” description: “How to integrate EC2 with ConfigView”
Setup
Prerequisites
You need to be root or admin. An AWS account. Your AWS user needs the following IAM permissions to successfully run- Create a new user
- you dont need to check “Provide user access to the AWS Management Console - _optional” _
- Choose Attach policies directly.
- In the Permissions policies search box, type
ReadOnlyAccess. - Check the box next to the policy named ReadOnlyAccess.
- Click Next, review the change, and click Create User.
- Select the Security credentials tab.
- Scroll down to the Access keys section and click Create access key.
- Choose a Use Case: Select Command Line Interface (CLI) or Other. AWS will show a best-practices warning—read it, then check the “I understand…” box to proceed.
- Set a Description Tag (Optional): Give it a name like
ReadOnly-Scripting-Keyso you know what it’s for later.
Click Create Access key
go to https://domain.configview.com/admin/secret/
https://tg.configview.com/admin/secret/- **Access key: Value: **
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: Value: - AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: Value: us-east-1 ( a default region is needed although this will scan all regions
- **Access key: Value: **