Starting an Amazon FSx remote PowerShell session - Amazon FSx for Windows File Server
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Starting an Amazon FSx remote PowerShell session

This topic provides instructions for starting a long-lived remote PowerShell session on your FSx for Windows File Server file server.

To start a remote PowerShell session on your file system

  1. Connect to a compute instance that has network connectivity with your file system as a user that is a member of the delegated FSx Administrators Group that you chose when you created the file system.

  2. Open a Windows PowerShell window on the compute instance.

  3. In the PowerShell, enter the following command to open a long-lived remote session on your Amazon FSx file system. Replace Remote-PowerShell-Endpoint with the Windows Remote PowerShell endpoint of file system that you want to administer. Use FsxRemoteAdmin as the session configuration name.

    PS C:\Users\delegateadmin> enter-pssession -ComputerName Remote-PowerShell-Endpoint -ConfigurationName FsxRemoteAdmin
[fs-0123456789abcdef0]: PS>

    If your instance is not part of the Amazon FSx Active Directory domain, you are prompted to enter user credentials in a pop-up. Enter the credentials of the user that is a member of the FSx Administrators Group. If your instance is joined to the domain, you will not be asked for credentials.

Important

The Windows Remote PowerShell endpoint might change if you are using self-managed Active Directory configuration and change the service account without proper Active Directory Group Policy settings. For more information, see Changing the Amazon FSx service account for more details.