Troubleshoot user-based subscriptions in License Manager
The following are troubleshooting tips to help solve issues that can occur with user-based subscriptions in AWS License Manager.
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Troubleshoot instance compliance
Instances providing user-based subscriptions must remain in a healthy status to be in compliance. Instances that are marked as unhealthy no longer meet the required prerequisites. License Manager will attempt to return the instance to a healthy status, but instances that are not able to return to a healthy status are terminated.
Instances which are launched to provide user-based subscriptions and are unable to complete the initial configuration will be terminated. You must correct the configuration issue and launch new instances to provide user-based subscriptions in this scenario. For more information, see the Prerequisites to create user-based subscriptions in License Manager.
Troubleshoot license compliance
If you configured your Active Directory to provide user-based subscriptions with Microsoft Office, you must ensure your resources can connect to the VPC endpoints License Manager creates. The endpoints require inbound traffic on TCP port 1688 from the instances providing user-based subscriptions.
You can use Reachability Analyzer to
help confirm that the networking configuration from your instances providing user-based
subscriptions and the VPC endpoints are configured properly. You can specify an instance
ID launched in a subnet providing user-based subscriptions as the source, and a VPC
endpoint provisioned for Microsoft Office products as the destination. Specify TCP as the protocol
and 1688 for the destination port for the path to analyze. For more information, see
How can
I troubleshoot connectivity issues over my gateway and interface VPC
endpoints?
Troubleshoot instance connectivity
Users must be able to use RDP to connect to the instances providing user-based subscriptions in order to use the products within. For more information on troubleshooting instance connectivity, see Troubleshoot connecting to your Windows instance in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.
Troubleshoot failures to join the domain
Users must be able to connect to the instances providing the user-based subscription products with their user identities from the Active Directory configured in the License Manager settings. Instances that fail to join the domain will be terminated.
To troubleshoot, you may need to launch an instance and manually join
the domain so that the resource is not terminated before you can investigate.
The instance must receive and execute the Systems Manager Run Command successfully, and the
instance must also be able to complete the domain join within the operating system. For
more information, see Understanding command
statuses in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide and How to troubleshoot errors that occur when you join Windows-based computers to a
domain
Troubleshoot Systems Manager connectivity
Instances that provide user-based subscriptions must be managed by AWS Systems Manager or they will be terminated. For more information, see Troubleshooting SSM Agent and Troubleshooting managed node availability in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide.
Troubleshoot Systems Manager Run Command
Run Command, a capability of Systems Manager, is used with instances providing user-based subscriptions to join the domain, harden the operating system, and perform access audits for the included product. For more information, see Understanding command statuses in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide.
