QUICK START: SYMANTEC ENDPOINT PROTECTION FOR AMAZON EC2 Quick Start Guide for Using Symantec Endpoint Protection for Amazon EC2
Quick Start Guide for Using Symantec Endpoint Protection for Amazon EC2 Contents About Symantec Endpoint Protection for Amazon EC2..................................................... 1 Starting and Configuring an Initial Endpoint Protection AMI for Amazon EC2.................................. 2 Storing the Configured Endpoint Protection AMI for Amazon EC2............................................. 8 Maintaining Endpoint Protection AMIs for Amazon EC2...................................................... 8 Upgrading Endpoint Protection AMIs for Amazon EC2....................................................... 8
About Symantec Endpoint Protection for Amazon EC2 Symantec's industry-leading Symantec Endpoint Protection is now available for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) users. Amazon Web Services (AWS) account holders can subscribe to a Symantec Endpoint Protection Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for EC2 to protect their Windows Servers in the cloud. This document assumes that you are already familiar with Amazon EC2 and that you have followed the procedures described in the Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide. You should also be familiar with Symantec Endpoint Protection. The following documents provide additional information for using Amazon EC2 and Symantec Endpoint Protection for Amazon EC2: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide Amazon EC2 Getting Started Guide Symantec Endpoint Protection Administrator's Guide for Windows 1
Starting and Configuring an Initial Endpoint Protection AMI for Amazon EC2 To configure an initial Endpoint Protection AMI for Amazon EC2: 1. Navigate your browser to http://aws.amazon.com, and under the Resources tab, click on AWS Management Console in the Developer Tools section. 2
2. At the AWS Management Console, click Sign in to the AWS Console, and enter your AWS username and password. The Amazon EC2 Console Dashboard appears. 3. Before launching an instance, create a new key-pair if one does not already exist by clicking on the Key-Pairs button under the Navigation tab. 3
4. Click on Create Key Pair, and provide a new key-pair name in the Create Key Pair pop-up window, and then click Create. The next step is to launch an Amazon EC2 instance. 5. Click on AMIs under the Navigation tab, and look for the Symantec AMI using the AMI ID from the Symantec web page (http://www.symantec.com/amazon, click on "Available AMIs"). 4
6. Select the AMI, and click Launch. 7. In the pop-up window, then enter the number of instances (1 preferred), and select the key-pair that was created from the drop-down box. Add or change a security group if required as described in step 8. 5
8. Click the Create button in the Launch Instance Wizard window to the right of the Security Groups drop-down menu to create a new security group. You can change an existing security group, but changing an existing security group needs to be done prior to clicking on the Launch button. For more information about security groups, see the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud User Guide at: http://awsdocs.s3.amazonaws.com/ec2/latest/ec2-ug.pdf. 6
9. Click Launch to start the Amazon EC2 instance. 10. Click on the Instances button under the Navigation tab. 11. Identify the instance that was started using our key-pair, and wait for the Status column to turn to running. This should take a couple of minutes. 12. Once the instance is running, select the instance, and then copy the Public DNS. 13. Run Remote Desktop Connection (i.e. click on Start > Programs > Accessories > Communications > Remote Desktop Connection). 14. Paste the Public DNS obtained from Step 12 in the Computer field, and click Connect. 15. At the AWS Management Console, click Instance Actions, and then click Get Windows Admin Password to generate a password for each time you launch an instance. 16. At the Retrieve Default Windows Administrator Password screen, copy your private key, and then click Decrypt Password. For security reasons, change the password after initial login. 7
17. After you have logged in, you can view your protection status with Symantec Endpoint Protection. Storing the Configured Endpoint Protection AMI for Amazon EC2 When you bundle a running instance, Amazon EC2 creates an AMI based on the instance and stores it in Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). You must store your instance in S3 or risk losing your instance if you terminate the running instance prior to saving it. For more information about using Amazon S3, refer to the Amazon Simple Storage Service Getting Started Guide. Maintaining Endpoint Protection AMIs for Amazon EC2 If you update a running instance, changes are lost after the instance terminates, unless you have bundled the instance as described above. Upgrading Endpoint Protection AMIs for Amazon EC2 You can download patches and upgrades from Patch Central. Users will be alerted by email or through the forums at Symantec Connect that a patch/upgrade is available and can be downloaded and applied to the instance. 8
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