To be able to connect to your BlueCat DNS for AWSBlueCat AWS Virtual Appliances, you must login as the bluecat user via SSH with the generated key pair file.
Attention: In accordance with AWS best practices, root login has been removed from BlueCat DNS for AWSBlueCat AWS Virtual Appliances v8.1.1 and greater. If you defined
custom SSH keys for root in BlueCat DNS for AWS v8.3.1 / v8.3.0, the keys will be copied over to the
bluecat user upon upgrade to version 8.1.1 or greater.
To connect your
instances via SSH:-
ssh -i <key_pair_file_name> bluecat@<eth0_ip>Note: This will bypass the ID/Password login credential.
After successfully connecting to your instances, you can now access the BlueCat DNS for AWSBlueCat AWS Virtual Appliances command-line interface using sudo su - admin.