Install the Controller in AWS Using Aurora

This page describes how to install the Controller in an AWS environment using an EC2 instance for the Controller Appserver, and an AWS RDS Aurora instance for the database. This page uses the Enterprise Console that you previously installed.

Note: Before you install the Controller using Aurora as the database, you must adjust the time zone of the Aurora database to match the time zone of the Controller server. By default, AWS sets the time zone equal to the UTC time zone. See updating the Aurora RDS time zone

To install the Controller in an AWS environment using an EC2 instance for the Controller Appserver, and an AWS RDS Aurora instance for the database:

  1. From the Enterprise Console instance, create a new platform: 
    cd ./appdynamics/platform/platform-admin/bin
./platform-admin.sh create-platform --name <platform_name> --installation-dir /data/appdynamics/platform/product
  2. Add a new host to the platform and install the Controller on the same host as the Enterprise Console: 
    ./platform-admin.sh add-hosts --platform-name testplatform --hosts localhost
  3. Install the Controller using Aurora as the database. Substitute the appropriate values for the admin user name, passwords, and Controller host and port. Ensure that databaseType is set to Aurora,and use the private DNS name of the network interface attached to the Controller EC2 instance instead of the DNS name for the EC2 instance itself. 
    ./platform-admin.sh submit-job --platform-name testplatform --service controller --job install --args controllerProfile=<profile_size> controllerPrimaryHost=<network_interface_private_DNS_name> controllerTenancyMode=single controllerRootUserPassword="<password>" mysqlRootPassword="<password>" controllerAdminUsername="admin" controllerAdminPassword="<password>" databaseType=Aurora controllerDBPort=3388 controllerDBHost="<auroraHost>"
    The installer connects to the Aurora DB instance, and creates the necessary databases, tables, and other objects. After a few minutes, the Controller should be installed and ready to use.