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Rudimentary monitoring of core server data is done using a combination of a set of Perl scripts from AWS and CloudWatch.  In addition to these EC2 instance key metric checks, full end-to-end testing of Shibboleth is accomplished using webisoget which is available from http://staff.washington.edu/fox/webisoget/webisoget-2.4.tar.gz^{Image Removed}.

The steps necessary to install and configure these tools is described below.

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For both AWS Linux and RHEL

cd /root
get http://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/cloudwatch-samples/CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip^{Image Removed}
unzip CloudWatchMonitoringScripts-v1.1.0.zip
cd aws-scripts-mon
cp awscreds.template awscreds
Edit and insert proper credentials
Then, as root, 'crontab -e' and add the following to root's crontab:

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