AWS Startup on-demand script

awscheck.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Install the AWS CLI, set up an IAM user for the instance(s) you want to control. 
# Pull the AWS keys for the IAM user and run aws configure to add them.
# I run this on Sophos UTM and have Sophos run a reverse proxy from the \
# $ROUTERIP:32400 to $PLEXHOST:32400
# set -x
# started with screen -Sdm a '/root/bin/awscheck.sh'een -Sdm a '/root/bin/awscheck.sh'screen -Sdm a '/root/bin/awscheck.sh'screen -Sdm a '/root/bin/awscheck.sh'n -Sdm a '/root/bin/awscheck.sh'

PLEXHOST=dokie.duckdns.org
WANIF=eth2
INSTID=i-3343fff0

while true
do
	until nc -z -w15 "$PLEXHOST" 32400
	do
	   tcpdump -i "$WANIF" -c1 -q dst port 32400 &&  aws ec2 start-instances --instance-ids "$INSTID"
	   sleep 120
	done
done