Environmental Variables:

If you plan to use the default configuration, DynomitemanagerConfiguration, then the following environmental variables must be setup:

• EC2_REGION
• ASG_NAME
• AUTO_SCALE_GROUP

Setting up AWS Roles:

In order to access the AWS services and metadata information, the user must setup the proper IAM roles (for example add a Dynomite role) and on the launch configuration that role can be used. The IAM roles need to have access to iam/security-credentials/ for the following services (depending on the environment) EC2 S3 (for backups/restores) * SimpleDB (if this use as the IConfigSource)

S3 Backups and Restores

In order to make backups and restore feature to work, Dynomite-manager must have access to /mnt/data and the directory must be configured in data store configuration (e.g. Redis) as the location of the persisting the data.