Performing Tasks on the Amazon EC2 Local Console
Some Storage Gateway maintenance tasks require that you log in to the gateway local console for a gateway that you have deployed on an Amazon EC2 instance. You can access the gateway local console on your Amazon EC2 instance by using a Secure Shell (SSH) client. The topics in this section describes how to log in to the gateway local console and perform maintenance tasks.
Topics
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Logging In to Your Amazon EC2 Gateway Local Console - Learn about how you can connect and log in to the gateway local console your Amazon EC2 instance by using a Secure Shell (SSH) client.
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Routing your gateway deployed on EC2 through an HTTP proxy - Learn about how you can configure Storage Gateway to route all Amazon enpoint traffic through a Socket Secure version 5 (SOCKS5) proxy server to your Amazon EC2 gateway instance.
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Testing gateway network connectivity - Learn about how you can use the gateway local console to test network connectivity between your gateway and various network resources.
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Viewing your gateway system resource status - Learn about how you can use the gateway local console to check the virtual CPU cores, root volume size, and RAM that are available to your gateway appliance.
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Running Storage Gateway commands on the local console - Learn about how you can run local console commands that allow you to perform additional tasks such as saving routing tables, connecting to Amazon Web Services Support, and more.