Configuring and Using the AWS Asset Manager

Silver Fabric supports Engines and Brokers hosted on Amazon Web Services machines through an Asset Manager for AWS. This Asset Manager analyzes the current allocation and can start or stop Engines based on Component engine minima and maxima.

Prerequisites

This section assumes you are familiar with following key AWS concepts. If you are not familiar with following AWS concepts, you should stop and first become familiar with these concepts using AWS online documentation as a resource:
  • AWS Management Console
  • AWS Account
  • AWS AMI
  • AWS Instances
  • AWS Access Key and Secret Key
  • AWS Key Pair Name
  • AWS Security Group Name, Security Group Id, Inbound and Outbound Rules
  • AWS EC2, VPC and VPC Subnet
If you are not familiar with following Silver Fabric concepts, you should become familiar with these concepts using the Silver Fabric product documentation:
  • Silver Fabric Broker
  • Silver Fabric Engine Daemon and instance
  • Silver Fabric Distribution
  • Silver Fabric Enabler
  • Silver Fabric Component
  • Silver Fabric Stack
  • Creation of Silver Fabric Components and Stacks
  • Starting and stopping of Silver Fabric Stacks
  • Use of Silver Fabric Skyway