Amazon-ssm-agent package

amazon-ssm-agent --help

Amazon Linux

       sudo yum install -y https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/linux_amd64/amazon-ssm-agent.rpm
       sudo systemctl enable amazon-ssm-agent
       sudo systemctl start amazon-ssm-agent

Ubuntu

snap install amazon-ssm-agent

snap find amazon-ssm-agent
Name              Version     Publisher  Notes    Summary
amazon-ssm-agent  3.0.1124.0  aws✓       classic  Agent to enable remote management of your Amazon EC2 instance configuration

amazon-ssm-agent --version
SSM Agent version: 3.1.941.0

/snap/amazon-ssm-agent/current/amazon-ssm-agent
Error occurred fetching the seelog config file path:  open /etc/amazon/ssm/seelog.xml: no such file or 
directory
Initializing new seelog logger
New Seelog Logger Creation Complete
2022-01-28 17:07:24 WARN Error adding the directory '/etc/amazon/ssm' to watcher: no such file or directory
2022-01-28 17:07:31 ERROR Agent failed to assume any identity
2022-01-28 17:07:31 ERROR failed to find identity, retrying: failed to find agent identity
2022-01-28 17:07:38 ERROR Agent failed to assume any identity
2022-01-28 17:07:38 ERROR failed to find identity, retrying: failed to find agent identity
2022-01-28 17:07:44 ERROR Agent failed to assume any identity
2022-01-28 17:07:44 ERROR failed to get identity: failed to find agent identity
2022-01-28 17:07:44 ERROR error occurred when starting amazon-ssm-agent: failed to get identity: failed to find agent identity

Binaries

• ssm-cli
• amazon-ssm-agent
• ssm-agent-worker

Related

• session-manager-plugin
• post_bootstrap_user_data

See also

• amazon-ssm-agent [ -register | --help ], package, /etc/cron.d/ssmstart
• AWS Systems Manager (ASM): session-manager-plugin, aws ssm [ get-inventory | aws ssm parameter, amazon-ssm-agent | describe-instance-information | start-session | terminate-session | resume-session | send-command | get-parameter | put-parameter | aws ssm list-instance-profiles | list-command-invocations ]
• AWS Systems Manager: CloudWatch Dashboard, Incident Manager, Change Manager, amazon-ssm-agent, ssm-cli, OpsItems, Session Manager, Parameter Store