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Expand Up @@ -37,7 +37,36 @@ The plugin reports all ELB metrics reported by CloudWatch. For a full list of t

Once the ELB plugin is installed, metric collection requires that a _relay_ is installed on the target system. Instructions on how to install a relay for Linux/Unix can found [here](http://premium-documentation.boundary.com/relays), and for Windows [here](http://premium-support.boundary.com/customer/portal/articles/1656465-installing-relay-on-windows).

Before the plugin will collect metrics, you must provide it with a valid AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. [Click here](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSGettingStartedGuide/AWSCredentials.html) for more information on where to find/generate these keys. The keys you generate should be for a user with access to both CloudWatch and ELB.
Before the plugin will collect metrics, you must provide it with a valid AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. [Click here](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSGettingStartedGuide/AWSCredentials.html) for more information on where to find/generate these keys. See below for a sample IAM policy to allow listing ELBs and gathering metrics from CloudWatch.

### IAM Policy
```
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Stmt1415315482000",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"elasticloadbalancing:DescribeLoadBalancers"
],
"Resource": [
"*"
]
},
{
"Sid": "Stmt1415315497000",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"cloudwatch:GetMetricStatistics"
],
"Resource": [
"*"
]
}
]
}
```

General operations for plugins are described in [this article](http://premium-support.boundary.com/customer/portal/articles/1635550-plugins---how-to).