• AWS Systems Manager Change Manager is no longer open to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. For more information, see AWS Systems Manager Change Manager availability change.
• The AWS Systems Manager CloudWatch Dashboard will no longer be available after April 30, 2026. Customers can continue to use Amazon CloudWatch console to view, create, and manage their Amazon CloudWatch dashboards, just as they do today. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch Dashboard documentation.
Verify the Session Manager plugin installation
Run the following commands to verify that the Session Manager plugin installed successfully.
session-manager-plugin
If the installation was successful, the following message is returned.
The Session Manager plugin is installed successfully. Use the AWS CLI to start a session.
You can also test the installation by running the start-session
command in the the AWS Command Line Interfaceinstance-id with
your own information.
aws ssm start-session --targetinstance-id
This command will work only if you have installed and configured the AWS CLI, and if your Session Manager administrator has granted you the necessary IAM permissions to access the target managed node using Session Manager.
