Amazon Web Services Testing

AWS Test Procedures:

 

Test Control Condition:

Launch an Instance by choosing Windows OS AMI

Create a local domain administrator account as admin and password as password

Join the computer to theKim Connect domain

 

Simulation 1: Recover from a Destroyed Instance

 

Copy AMI from running instance

Terminate original instance

Launch the copied instance

Attach the backup volumes from snapshots

 

Run these command from a local workstation that has Systernals installed:

 

Reset computer account password with domain controller

———- This procedure doesn’t work! ——————-

psexec \\mail01 -e -h -u mail01\admin -p password netdom resetpwd /s:dc01 /ud:kimconnect\admin /pd:password && shutdown -r -t 0

 

Re-attach volumes

psexec \\mail01 -e -h -u kimconnect\admin -p password diskpart /s “\\kimconnect.com\netlogon\activateDrives.txt”

 

Simulation 2: Recover from Autoscale Group instance reconstruction

 

Attach the instance to an AWS Autoscale Group (procedure to be detailed later)

 

Reboot the instance to simulate a “machine down” problem. A new instance would be launched by the Autoscale Group. The original instance should be terminated by that Autoscale Group. This new instance would have a “broken trust relationship” with the domain; thus, its computer password account should be reset with the following proceedure:

 

Reset computer account password with domain controller

psexec \\mail01 -e -h -u mail01\admin -p password netdom resetpwd /s:dc01 /ud:kimconnect\admin /pd:password && shutdown -r -t 0

 

Simulation 3: TBD