{"id":4267,"date":"2017-02-17T10:05:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2017-02-17T10:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T15:05:44","slug":"assigning-elastic-ip-load-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/assigning-elastic-ip-load-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Assigning Elastic IP to Load Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>To use specific IP addresses for your test you will need to setup Elastic IP on your AWS account and associate it to a running load agent.<\/div>\n<div>Setting up Elastic IPs on AWS are documented <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.aws.amazon.com\/AWSEC2\/latest\/UserGuide\/elastic-ip-addresses-eip.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As the standard load agents created are ephemeral and therefore hard to associate a public IP to we recommend using a paid RedLine13 account.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This will give you access to our &#8216;Server Management&#8217; Feature.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/pro-features\/pro-feature-server-management\/\">https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/pro-features\/pro-feature-server-management\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>You would schedule your load agent for a period of time, ie the full week or day of testing.<\/div>\n<div>Once the agent is running, you can manually use AWS console to associate your elastic IP address.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1 &#8211; Take a look at your running servers on RedLine13 &#8211; Servers -&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/AWS\/ListServers\">Running Servers<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4270 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Running-Load-Agents.png\" alt=\"running-load-agents\" width=\"625\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Running-Load-Agents.png 1030w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Running-Load-Agents-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Running-Load-Agents-1024x354.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Running-Load-Agents-768x265.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/div>\n<div>2 &#8211; Open your AWS EC2 console to the correct region and select Elastic IPs from left menu.<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>If you do not yet have Elastic IPs allocated, do so.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have either VPC or Classic Elastic IP as needed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4271 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Allocate-Elastic-IPs.png\" alt=\"allocate-elastic-ips\" width=\"606\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Allocate-Elastic-IPs.png 1388w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Allocate-Elastic-IPs-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Allocate-Elastic-IPs-1024x724.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Allocate-Elastic-IPs-768x543.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Start the process to associate IP address from the Actions<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4275 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Associate-IP-Address.png\" alt=\"associate-ip-address\" width=\"908\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Associate-IP-Address.png 1811w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Associate-IP-Address-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Associate-IP-Address-1024x161.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Associate-IP-Address-768x121.png 768w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Associate-IP-Address-1536x242.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Associate-IP-Address-1568x247.png 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; Select the Instances to be assigned the Elastic IP address.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4273 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/select-instance-to-associate-with-elastic-ip.png\" alt=\"select-instance-to-associate-with-elastic-ip\" width=\"892\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/select-instance-to-associate-with-elastic-ip.png 1333w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/select-instance-to-associate-with-elastic-ip-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/select-instance-to-associate-with-elastic-ip-1024x472.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/select-instance-to-associate-with-elastic-ip-768x354.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 892px) 100vw, 892px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>5- You can then reload Servers -&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/AWS\/ListServers\">Running Servers<\/a><\/p>\n<div>Now you will see your\u00a0public IP address change. \u00a0Ours changed from\u00a052.14.132.10 to 52.14.137.216. Just give this new elastic IP address to your Operations folks and they can use this IP address in their whitelist.<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4272 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instance-now-has-elastic-IP.png\" alt=\"instance-now-has-elastic-ip\" width=\"703\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instance-now-has-elastic-IP.png 1018w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instance-now-has-elastic-IP-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Instance-now-has-elastic-IP-768x214.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>6 &#8211; Repeat this process for your load agents.<\/div>\n<div>Each load agent will need to have its own IP address in this model. \u00a0If a load agent goes away and a new one is created the Elastic IP address will need to be associated with the new load agent.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For a more robust solution with increased configuration complexity you can use NAT gateways, read more about setting up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/load-testing-with-private-subnets-and-nat-gateways\/\">Load Testing with private subnets and NAT<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To use specific IP addresses for your test you will need to setup Elastic IP on your AWS account and associate it to a running load agent. 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This will give you access to our &#8216;Server Management&#8217; Feature. https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/pro-features\/pro-feature-server-management\/ You would schedule your load<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/assigning-elastic-ip-load-agents\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-user","4":"post-4267","6":"format-standard","7":"category-aws-faq","8":"category-blog"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.12 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Assigning Elastic IP to Load Agents - RedLine13<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redline13.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/assigning-elastic-ip-load-agents\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assigning Elastic IP to Load Agents - RedLine13\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To use specific IP addresses for your test you will need to setup Elastic IP on your AWS account and associate it to a running load agent. 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