MYOB Acumatica Installation in a Data Center: To Install MYOB Acumatica on Amazon EC2

The following activity will walk you through the process of installing the MYOB Acumatica ERP Configuration Wizard and deploying an MYOB Acumatica instance on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance.

Story

Suppose that you are the system administrator, and you need to deploy an MYOB Acumatica instance on the Amazon EC2 instance.

Process Overview

In this activity, you will install the MYOB Acumatica ERP Configuration Wizard and deploy an MYOB Acumatica instance on the Amazon EC2 instance.

System Preparation

Before you begin deploying an MYOB Acumatica instance on the Amazon EC2 instance, make sure that you have performed the following prerequisite activities: MYOB Acumatica Installation in a Data Center: To Launch an Amazon EC2 Instance and MYOB Acumatica Installation in a Data Center: To Create a Database Instance on Amazon RDS.

Step: Deploying MYOB Acumatica on the Amazon EC2 Instance

To deploy MYOB Acumatica on Amazon EC2, do the following:

1. From the Acumatica Community website, download an MYOB Acumatica installation package with the version of MYOB Acumatica you want to install. For details, see MYOB Acumatica Installation On-Premises: To Install the MYOB Acumatica Configuration Wizard
2. Run the Remote Desktop file that you have downloaded on your computer while launching an Amazon EC2 instance.
   Tip:

   You use the Remote Desktop Connection service to connect to the web server running on your Amazon EC2 instance.
3. Copy the MYOB Acumatica installation package to the web server on the Amazon EC2 instance.
4. Install the MYOB Acumatica ERP Configuration Wizard, as described in MYOB Acumatica Installation On-Premises: To Install the MYOB Acumatica Configuration Wizard.

   Wait until the installation of the MYOB Acumatica ERP Configuration Wizard is complete.

5. On the Welcome page of the MYOB Acumatica ERP Configuration Wizard, which opens, click Deploy a New Acumatica ERP Instance.
6. On the Database Server Connection page, specify the following server settings for the database that will be used by the MYOB Acumatica instance:
   1. Server Type: Microsoft SQL Server.
   2. Server Name: The DNS name of the Amazon RDS database instance you have created. You can copy it from the Endpoint box on the Connectivity & Security tab of the Databases page of Amazon RDS. Also, if there is a custom port number, you can specify it after a comma.
      Tip:

      If you cannot connect to the server, check the security groups you have selected for the EC2 and RDS instances. You must select the same group for both services.
   3. SQL Server Authentication: Selected.

      In the boxes that become available on the page, specify the following settings:

      • Login: Admin
      • Password: The password you have created for the Amazon RDS database instance
7. Click Next.
8. On the Database Configuration page, specify the following settings:
   1. Create a New Database: Selected
   2. New Database's Name: AcumaticaAWS
9. Click Next.
10. On the Tenant Setup page, review the new tenant that the wizard creates by default with no data preloaded; it has the default name Company in the Tenant Name column.
    Tip:

    The name specified in this column is displayed on the Sign-In page of the application instance and in the instance’s user interface.

    You can also configure the tenant, add more tenants, or restrict the list of tenants a user can see on the Sign-In page. For more information, see Maintaining Tenants.

11. Click Next.
12. On the Database Connection page, set up the authentication method that this instance of MYOB Acumatica will use to connect to the database by specifying the following settings:
    1. SQL Server Authentication: Selected
    2. Use Existing Login Credentials: Selected
       • Login: Admin
       • Password: The password that you have created for the Amazon RDS database instance
13. Click Next.
14. On the Instance Configuration page, specify the following settings:
    • Instance Name: AcumaticaAWS
    • Create Acumatica ERP Site: Selected
    • Local Path to the Instance: The path on the local computer where you run the web service to this application instance
15. Click Next.
16. On the Website Configuration page, specify the following settings:
    1. Available Websites: Default Web Site
    2. Create Virtual Directory: Selected
    3. Virtual Directory Name: AcumaticaAWS
    4. Compile the Site: Selected
    5. Install RabbitMQ: Selected
    6. Install NodeJS: Selected
    7. Enable Modern UI: Cleared
    8. Use Existing Application Pool: Selected
    9. Available Application Pools: DefaultAppPool
17. Click Next.
18. On the Confirmation of Configuration page, check the configuration settings you have specified, and click Finish to deploy this MYOB Acumatica instance.
19. Click OK in the dialog box after the installation is complete; the system returns you to the Welcome page of the MYOB Acumatica ERP Configuration Wizard.

The new MYOB Acumatica instance is created on the Awazon EC2 instance, and now you can access it for the first time. For details, see Instance Deployment: Accessing an Instance for the First Time and Instance Deployment: To Deploy an Out-of-the-Box Instance.