Deploying the Expel Assembler in AWS

Send your AWS account ID and the AWS region(s) in which you want to deploy an Assembler to your customer success engineer or engagement manager.

Your engagement manager lets you know after the Expel Assembler AMI is shared with your account.

Go to the AWS EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

Select AMIs from the left navigation pane.

Change the image selector list to Private Images.

Select the latest Expel Assembler image with owner 555836951224 (the Expel AWS Account ID).

Click Launch.

Select an instance type of t2.large. Change other instance parameters at your discretion.

Click Review and Launch.

Click Launch.

Select a key pair that you to log into the Assembler.

In Expel Workbench, click Settings in the top navigation bar. You see a dialog box with the Assembler Name and Location fields. If not, click the Add Assembler button.

Type the Assembler Name and Location for the assembler. It’s best to use names that are meaningful to both you and to Expel so you can easily identify the assembler. For example: ACME HQ.

Note the Install Code for the newly registered Assembler. You need this in the next section to activate the Assembler.

To add another Assembler, click the Add Assembler button and repeat the steps.

SSH to the expel account on the instance you just launched: ssh expel@<hostname>

Activate the Assembler by supplying the 8-character install code created in the previous step: sudo expelmanage –activate <eight-character install code>

You see output like this:

[expel@hostname ~]$ sudo expelmanage --activate abcd1234
Activation code set
Regenerating SSH keys
Activated
[expel@hostname ~]$

Run exit to log out of the Assembler.