Troubleshooting Windows EC2 instance user-data

PublishedSeptember 9, 2020

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Troubleshooting Windows EC2 instance user-data

Ujang Mumu

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<powershell> $instanceId = (invoke-webrequest http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/instance-id -UseBasicParsing).content $config = '{ "logs":{ "logs_collected":{ "files":{ "collect_list":[ { "file_path":"C:\\ProgramData\\Amazon\\EC2-Windows\\Launch\\Log\\UserdataExecution.log", "log_group_name":"UserdataExecution.log", "log_stream_name":"{instance_id}" } ] } } }, "metrics":{ "append_dimensions":{ "AutoScalingGroupName":"${aws:AutoScalingGroupName}", "ImageId":"${aws:ImageId}", "InstanceId":"${aws:InstanceId}", "InstanceType":"${aws:InstanceType}" }, "metrics_collected":{ "LogicalDisk":{ "measurement":[ "% Free Space" ], "metrics_collection_interval":60, "resources":[ "*" ] }, "Memory":{ "measurement":[ "% Committed Bytes In Use" ], "metrics_collection_interval":60 }, "statsd":{ "metrics_aggregation_interval":60, "metrics_collection_interval":10, "service_address":":8125" } } } }' mkdir C:\Downloads\Amazon\AmazonCloudWatchAgent powershell -Command "(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://s3.amazonaws.com/amazoncloudwatch-agent/windows/amd64/latest/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.msi','C:\Downloads\Amazon\AmazonCloudWatchAgent\amazon-cloudwatch-agent.msi')" do{ C:\Downloads\Amazon\AmazonCloudWatchAgent\amazon-cloudwatch-agent.msi Start-Sleep 2 $config | Set-Content 'C:\Downloads\Amazon\AmazonCloudWatchAgent\config.json' & "C:\Program Files\Amazon\AmazonCloudWatchAgent\amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl.ps1" -a fetch-config -m ec2 -s -c file:"C:\Downloads\Amazon\AmazonCloudWatchAgent\config.json" $agent_status = & "C:\Program Files\Amazon\AmazonCloudWatchAgent\amazon-cloudwatch-agent-ctl.ps1" -a status | ConvertFrom-Json $agent_status } until($agent_status.status -eq "running") Restart-Service AmazonSSMAgent [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls11, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Ssl3 [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = "Tls, Tls11, Tls12, Ssl3" iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) choco install python -y $dlurl = "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi" $installerPath = Join-Path $env:TEMP (Split-Path $dlurl -Leaf) Invoke-WebRequest $dlurl -OutFile $installerPath Start-Process -FilePath msiexec -Args "/i $installerPath /passive" -Verb RunAs -Wait Remove-Item $installerPath </powershell>

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