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Modifies a network interface attribute. You can specify only one attribute at a time.
The short version of this command is ec2mnicatt.
ec2-modify-network-interface-attribute
NETWORKINTERFACE -d, --description
DESCRIPTION -a, --attachment
ATTACHMENT --delete-on-termination
BOOLEAN --source-dest-check
BOOLEAN --group-id
GROUP_ID
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Changes the description of the network interface. Type: String Default: None Required: Yes Example: -d "My Second ENI" |
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Changes properties of the attachment. Type: String Default: None Constraints: Must be used in conjunction with --delete-on-termination. Required: Yes Example: -a eni-attach-09703260 -delete-on-termination false |
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Sets whether the network interface shall be deleted when the network interface is detached. Type: String Default: None Constraints: Must be used in conjunction with --attachment. Required: Yes Example: -a eni-attach-09703260 -delete-on-termination false |
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Sets whether to enable the source/dest check on traffic through this network interface. Type: String Default: None Valid values: Required: Yes Example: --source-dest-check false |
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Replaces the security groups for this network interface. Type: String Default: None Required: Yes Example: --group-id sg-b90619d5 -groupd id sg-a92639c9 |
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Overrides the region specified by the Default: The value of the Example: |
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The uniform resource locator (URL) of the Amazon EC2 web service entry point. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The private key that identifies you to Amazon EC2. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The X.509 certificate that identifies you to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The access key ID associated with your AWS account. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are. Default: The value of the Example: Note For more information, see the following section, Deprecated Options. |
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The secret access key associated with your AWS account. Default: The value of the Example: Note For more information, see the following section, Deprecated Options. |
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The AWS delegation token. Default: The value of the environment variable (if set). |
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The connection timeout, in seconds. Example: |
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The request timeout, in seconds. Example: |
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Displays verbose output, including the API request and response on the command line. This is useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our Query API. |
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Includes column headers in the command output. |
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Shows empty columns as |
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Omits tags for tagged resources. |
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Displays internal debugging information. This can assist us when helping you troubleshooting problems. |
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Displays usage information for the command. |
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Reads arguments from standard input. This is useful when piping the output from one command to the input of another. Example: |
For a limited time, you can still use the private key and X.509 certificate instead of your access key ID and secret access key. However, we recommend that you start using your access key ID (-O, --aws-access-key) and secret access key (-W, --aws-secret-key) now, as the private key (-K, --private-key) and X.509 certificate (-C, --cert) won't be supported after the transition period elapses. For more information, see Tell the Tools Who You Are.
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The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
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The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the Example: |
This command returns the name of the attribute that was modified.
Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.
This example adds a description to the network interface.
PROMPT>ec2-modify-network-interface-attribute eni-b35da6da -d "This is an ENI"NETWORKINTERFACE eni-b35da6da description
This example turns off source/destination checking for network traffic across the network interface.
PROMPT>ec2-modify-network-interface-attribute eni-b35da6da --source-dest-check falseNETWORKINTERFACE eni-b35da6da sourceDestCheck SOURCEDESTCHECK false
This example changes the security group for the specified network interface.
PROMPT>ec2-modify-network-interface-attribute eni-b35da6da --group-id sg-8ea1bce2NETWORKINTERFACE eni-b35da6da group GROUPID sg-8ea1bce2
This example retains the network interface when it is detached from an instance.
PROMPT>ec2-modify-network-interface-attribute eni-b35da6da --delete-on-termination false -a eni-attach-083fda61NETWORKINTERFACE eni-b35da6da attachment