How can we access a PE server from home?

• Created date: 2020-11-11

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

Description

• How can we access PE environment when working from home (will work in the office as well) ? 

Resolution

1. Copy the following link;
   
   aws ssm start-session --document-name AWS-StartPortForwardingSession --parameters "localPortNumber=55678,portNumber=3389" --profile prod --target i-... --region eu-west-1  

2. Open Command Line and paste the link there. 

3. Open Instances (https://eu-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home?region=eu-west-1#Instances:sort=tag:Name). Copy the Instance ID of the desired customer's PE.

4. Go back to the command line. Remove i-... and paste the Instance ID (see picture)
   
   
   

5.  Click enter and port 55678 will open for a short while. 
   

6. Open a new remote desktop connection and type localhost:55678

        

     7. Enter the password (you'll find the password in CMS keepass) and click OK and you're inside the PE server. 

          

         DONE!