Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions,
see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China
(PDF).
Installing Amazon DCV Session Manager Command Line Interface
The Amazon DCV Session Manager Command Line Interface (CLI) is a powerful tool for managing remote desktop sessions on the Amazon DCV
platform. To get started, you'll need to install the CLI on your local system. This section describes how to
install the Session Manager CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Prerequisites for installing Amazon DCV Session Manager CLI
This section includes prerequisites for installing Amazon DCV Session Manager CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Linux and macOS
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Python version 3.6 or later.
Ability to extract or unzip a downloaded, compressed file. If your operating system doesn't
have the built-in unzip command, use an equivalent.
- Windows
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Installing Amazon DCV Session Manager CLI
This section describes the process to install Amazon DCV Session Manager CLI on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
- Linux and macOS
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To Install Amazon DCV Session Manager CLI on Linux and macOS
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Download the zipped package from the Amazon DCV website.
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Unzip the downloaded package. If your Linux distribution doesn't have a built-in unzip
command, use an equivalent to unzip it. The following example
command unzips the package and creates a directory that's named
nice-dcv-session-manager-cli-1.0.0-37 under the
current directory.
$ unzip nice-dcv-session-manager-cli-1.0.0-37.zip
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To validate the content of the zip file, run the following command inside the folder extracted in the previous step:
./dcvsm --version
- Windows Amazon DCV server
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To install Amazon DCV Session Manager CLI on Windows
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Download the zipped package from the Amazon DCV website.
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Unzip the downloaded package.
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To validate the content of the zip file, run the following command:
C:\> dcvsm --version