What is the unified console? - AWS Systems Manager

What is the unified console?

The unified Systems Manager console is a consolidated experience that combines various tools to help you complete common node tasks across multiple AWS accounts and AWS Regions in an AWS Organizations organization, or a single account and Region. Nodes can be EC2 instances, hybrid servers, or servers running in a multicloud environment. In the unified console, you're provided with detailed insights to your nodes. You can generate reports for your nodes, diagnose and remediate common issues that prevent nodes from reporting as managed by Systems Manager, like connectivity issues. In addition to summaries about your nodes, you can view specific details about a node like software inventory and patching status.

Node data displayed on Systems Manager Review node insights page
A list of managed nodes in the Explore nodes page

Whether you have nodes in multiple accounts and Regions in an organization, or nodes in a single account and Region, we recommend using the unified console. Systems Manager continues to add the ability to complete more node tasks to the unified console. To learn about the node tasks you can perform now using the unified console, see Performing node management tasks with AWS Systems Manager.

Proceed to the next topics to set up your nodes to be managed by Systems Manager. To learn more about setting up your nodes for Systems Manager, see Setting up managed nodes for AWS Systems Manager. After you've set up your nodes, you can set up Systems Manager and the unified console. To learn more about setting up Systems Manager, see Setting up AWS Systems Manager.