Start the data retention bot for your Wickr network - AWS Wickr

This guide provides documentation for AWS Wickr. For Wickr Enterprise, which is the on-premises version of Wickr, see Enterprise Administration Guide.

Start the data retention bot for your Wickr network

Before you run the data retention bot, you should determine how you want to configure it. If you plan to run the bot on a host that:

  • Will not have access to AWS services, then your options are limited. In that case you will use the default message streaming options. You should decide whether you want to limit the size of the captured message files to a specific size or time interval. For more information, see Environment variables to configure data retention bot in AWS Wickr.

  • Will have access to AWS services, then you should create a Secrets Manager secret to store the bot credentials, and AWS service configuration details. After the AWS services are configured, you can proceed to start the data retention bot Docker image. For more information about the details you can store in a Secrets Manager secret, see Secrets Manager values for AWS Wickr

The following sections show example commands to run the data retention bot Docker image. In each of the example commands, replace the following example values with your own:

  • compliance_1234567890_bot with the name of your data retention bot.

  • password with the password for your data retention bot.

  • wickr/data/retention/bot with the name of your Secrets Manager secret to use with your data retention bot.

  • bucket-name with the name of the Amazon S3 bucket where messages and files will be stored.

  • folder-name with the folder name in the Amazon S3 bucket where messages and files will be stored.

  • us-east-1 with the AWS Region of the resource you're specifying. For example, the Region of the AWS KMS master key or the Region of the Amazon S3 bucket.

  • arn:aws:kms:us-east-1:111122223333:key/12345678-1234-abcde-a617-abababababab with the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of your AWS KMS master key to use to re-encrypt message files and files.