NDI + CD2 + AWS manual of how to set up AMI instance for PARTNERS and POC

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Before we start, please note that the Cinedeck AMI is located in the us-east-1 region, so please make sure you have the correct one selected on the right top of the page.

Note** If you need it in a different region, please feel free to send a support ticket https://cinedeck.com/contact/. We will reply to you shortly.  

Please log in the AWS console by following the link https://console.aws.amazon.com/console/home?region=us-east-1#  

You can easily set up your AMI instance by following these steps:

1. Choose AMI: 

•  Please choose EC2  in the “Services’-‘Compute’ section, which you will find on the top left side of the console.

•  Click AMI in the ‘Images’ section in the left side menu.

•  You will be transferred to the page with a list of AMIs. Please click the line with Cinedeck Server 2.0. (1)* Test , and right mouse click-‘Launch’ to proceed. 

      Note! *AMI versions can vary. 

2. Choose an Instance Type:

       Find ‘Filter by’ menu- ‘All instance families’ and click ‘g4dn’, which is in the second column. Here you are welcome to choose vCPU that suits best at the moment. So please click the corresponding line and click ’Next: Configure Instance Details’ at the right bottom side of the page.

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3. Configure Instance Details: 

You are on the page where all data is pre-set by default. Feel free to either change any field if needed         or go ahead and click ‘Next: Add Storage’. See the right bottom page side.

4. Add  Storage:

Here you can see two discs:  a ‘root’ system disc. Please make sure to leave them both (root and EBS) as you won’t be able to use ‘root’ disc for recording.

Your instance will be launched with the storage device settings as follows. 

If requested, 

• You can attach additional EBS volumes by clicking the ‘Add New Volume’ button and change settings of both root and additional volumes.

• When all is set here, click ‘Next: Add Tags’ in the right bottom corner.

5. Add Tags:

On this step, click the ‘Add Tag’ button and create a key, value if needed. If not, just skip this step and click ‘Configure Security Group’. 

Make sure your IAM policy includes permissions to create tags.

A tag consists of a case-sensitive key-value pair. For example, you could define a tag with key = Name and value = Web-server. A copy of a tag can be applied to volumes, instances or both. Tags will be applied to all instances and volumes.

6. Configure Security Group:

This step is to set up rules to control the traffic for your instance. To complete it, please:

• Create a new or choose an existing security group

• Add the following rules (click ‘Add rule’ button):

• custom TCP rule with the port range 8989

• custom TCP rule with port range 5960-5969

• Preview: custom TCP rule with the port range 9050-9060

• At the end, just hit ‘Review and Launch’

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7. Review:

You can review your setting details here. If you need to make corrections, you can apply changes by clicking ‘Edit’ from the corresponding section.

Please note, you can make changes at any step by choosing the necessary 'Step” in the toolbar on the top of the page, click ‘Previous’ bottom right of each page: 

If everything looks right, click the ‘Launch’ blue button in the bottom right corner.

Once done, you will see a pop up window, asking you to either generate a new key or use the existing one.

8. Creating a new key pair.

This private key is required to obtain the password used to log into your instance:

1. To create a new key, please select ‘Create a new key pair’ in the drop down window and type in the name for it  the ’key pair name’ field.

2. Click ‘Download Key Pair’.

3. Now Click ‘Launch instance’ and you’ll be transferred to the ‘Launch status’ page. If all is OK, proceed by clicking the ‘View instance’ button. 

Here you can edit the name of your instance and proceed by hitting ‘Connect’:

• And you are on the step to connect to your instance using the RDP client.

9. Connect your Instance using the RDP client

Choose an option and click ‘Get password’ and please give it 4-5 minutes to get created.

• Once done, you will be asked to decrypt the password. This can be done by ‘browsing to your key pair’ or copy and paste the contents of them. Then click ‘Decrypt password’.

Please reload the page to see your password.

It usually takes up to 5 minutes, but from our experience this might take even an hour. So if you can’t see it in 5 minutes, just wait a bit longer and try to retrieve your password once again:

1. Launch Microsoft Remote Desktop

• Now you need to launch the ‘Microsoft remote desktop’’ and choose ‘Import from RDP file’ or find the ‘Remote desktop file’ on your pc and launch it:

• Choose the ‘remote desktop file’ you have downloaded, and insert the password generated in the AWS console ‘step 4’.

• You are now connected. Find ‘NDI access manager’ and launch it please.

2. Launch NDI Access Manager

In this window:

• Pick ‘Remote sources’ - ‘New’.

• Insert the Device IP address (Private IPV4 address*), click ‘OK’-’OK’ to apply it.

You will see the control panel, where you’ll need to take the following steps to connect to your instance:

• Click ‘Setup’, which can be found in the toolbar on the top

• ’Prefs’ - ‘Restart Application’ and give it a moment to actually get restarted.

3. Launch Cinedeck Client on your PC

• Launch ‘Cinedeck client’ on your pc,

• choose ‘Superuser’,

• Click the icon (see screenshot below):

• add the Public IPv4 address*, name and let it get connected (you will see a green dot next to ‘IP address you’ve logged) and then ‘Save’ them: