Installing Packages on ec2 via SSM Run document

Question

What are the steps to install security binaries on EC2 via SSM Run documents? I have a run document created that has the python and shells to install the packages.  How would this be executed to install these packages on EC2? Trying to find associated documentation for this. The installations required are Tanium, Splunk and Crowdstrike

Please note, the document was created through Terraform. However when I try executing on console, I get this error

```
Step fails when it is Poll action status for completion. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/some-path/customer_script.py", line 23, in main sys.exit(1) SystemExit - 1. Please refer to Automation Service Troubleshooting Guide for more diagnosis details.
```

Answer

From your question. it's not clear if you are experiencing issue while installing packages on EC2 through SSM or you are strting as fresh and need guidance on how to.

This document [Install or update packages](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide/distributor-working-with-packages-deploy.html#distributor-deploy-pkg-cli) should be your starting point.

I'm not 100% sure, if that is what you are looking for. Please comment here if you are seeing any issues.

Happy to help.

Abhishek

Installing Packages on ec2 via SSM Run document

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