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EmpowerID provides an administrative dashboard that you can use to manage the state of any machine instances that are hosted by a supported cloud provider with whom EmpowerID is connected, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.

Starting and stopping hosted instances in EmpowerID

Verifying the instance state

This topic demonstrates

managing

how to manage the state of cloud instances hosted by AWS.

As prerequisites to managing AWS instances in EmpowerID, you

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You must have an AWS account and have connected EmpowerID to AWS.

For users to

To manage the state of instances in EmpowerID,

those users need to have

a user needs an Access Level assignment to the Computer resource type with the following operations allowed

for the Computer resource type

:

Start Instance
Stop Instance
Reboot Instance

By default, these operations are allowed on the following Access Levels:

All Access (EmpowerID Admin)
Access Manager
Administrator
Local Computer Administrator

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To start or stop an instance in EmpowerID

From In the Navigation Sidebar of the EmpowerID Web interface, navigate to the Identity Admin page by expanding expand Dashboards and clicking click Identity Admin.
From the Identity Admin page, locate the Start or Stop a Computer widget.

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Type the name of the instance whose state you want to change and click the tile for that instance to select it.

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Select the desired state from the Status drop-down.

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Click Submit.

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Select or deselect clear Wait to see results depending on whether you want to see if the instance is created.
Click Submit.

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To verify the instance state

From your Web browser log in to into your AWS console as an administrator.
From the AWS dashboard, navigate to the EC2 Dashboard and click Instances in the navigation sidebar. You should the The instance state reflect reflects the change you made to it in EmpowerID.

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