Logging In to Your Amazon EC2 Gateway Local Console

You can connect to your Amazon EC2 instance by using a Secure Shell (SSH) client. For detailed information, see Connect to Your Instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. To connect this way, you will need the SSH key pair you specified when you launched the instance. For information about Amazon EC2 key pairs, see Amazon EC2 Key Pairs in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

To log in to the gateway local console

1. Log in to your local console. If you are connecting to your EC2 instance from a Windows computer, log in as admin.

2. After you log in, you see the AWS Storage Gateway - Configuration main menu, from which you can perform various tasks.

   To Learn About This Task	See This Topic
   Configure a SOCKS proxy for your gateway	Routing your gateway deployed on EC2 through an HTTP proxy
   Test network connectivity	Testing gateway network connectivity
   Run Storage Gateway console commands	Running Storage Gateway commands on the local console
   View a system resource check	Viewing your gateway system resource status.

To shut down the gateway, enter 0.

To exit the configuration session, enter X.