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UpdateAssociationStatus - AWS Systems Manager

UpdateAssociationStatus

Updates the status of the AWS Systems Manager document (SSM document) associated with the specified managed node.

UpdateAssociationStatus is primarily used by the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) to report status updates about your associations and is only used for associations created with the InstanceId legacy parameter.

Request Syntax

{ "AssociationStatus": { "AdditionalInfo": "string", "Date": number, "Message": "string", "Name": "string" }, "InstanceId": "string", "Name": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AssociationStatus

The association status.

Type: AssociationStatus object

Required: Yes

InstanceId

The managed node ID.

Type: String

Pattern: (^i-(\w{8}|\w{17})$)|(^mi-\w{17}$)

Required: Yes

Name

The name of the SSM document.

Type: String

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z0-9_\-.:/]{3,128}$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "AssociationDescription": { "AlarmConfiguration": { "Alarms": [ { "Name": "string" } ], "IgnorePollAlarmFailure": boolean }, "ApplyOnlyAtCronInterval": boolean, "AssociationId": "string", "AssociationName": "string", "AssociationVersion": "string", "AutomationTargetParameterName": "string", "CalendarNames": [ "string" ], "ComplianceSeverity": "string", "Date": number, "DocumentVersion": "string", "Duration": number, "InstanceId": "string", "LastExecutionDate": number, "LastSuccessfulExecutionDate": number, "LastUpdateAssociationDate": number, "MaxConcurrency": "string", "MaxErrors": "string", "Name": "string", "OutputLocation": { "S3Location": { "OutputS3BucketName": "string", "OutputS3KeyPrefix": "string", "OutputS3Region": "string" } }, "Overview": { "AssociationStatusAggregatedCount": { "string" : number }, "DetailedStatus": "string", "Status": "string" }, "Parameters": { "string" : [ "string" ] }, "ScheduleExpression": "string", "ScheduleOffset": number, "Status": { "AdditionalInfo": "string", "Date": number, "Message": "string", "Name": "string" }, "SyncCompliance": "string", "TargetLocations": [ { "Accounts": [ "string" ], "ExcludeAccounts": [ "string" ], "ExecutionRoleName": "string", "IncludeChildOrganizationUnits": boolean, "Regions": [ "string" ], "TargetLocationAlarmConfiguration": { "Alarms": [ { "Name": "string" } ], "IgnorePollAlarmFailure": boolean }, "TargetLocationMaxConcurrency": "string", "TargetLocationMaxErrors": "string", "Targets": [ { "Key": "string", "Values": [ "string" ] } ], "TargetsMaxConcurrency": "string", "TargetsMaxErrors": "string" } ], "TargetMaps": [ { "string" : [ "string" ] } ], "Targets": [ { "Key": "string", "Values": [ "string" ] } ], "TriggeredAlarms": [ { "Name": "string", "State": "string" } ] } }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

AssociationDescription

Information about the association.

Type: AssociationDescription object

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

AssociationDoesNotExist

The specified association doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerError

An error occurred on the server side.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidDocument

The specified SSM document doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidInstanceId

The following problems can cause this exception:

  • You don't have permission to access the managed node.

  • AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) isn't running. Verify that SSM Agent is running.

  • SSM Agent isn't registered with the SSM endpoint. Try reinstalling SSM Agent.

  • The managed node isn't in a valid state. Valid states are: Running, Pending, Stopped, and Stopping. Invalid states are: Shutting-down and Terminated.

HTTP Status Code: 400

StatusUnchanged

The updated status is the same as the current status.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyUpdates

There are concurrent updates for a resource that supports one update at a time.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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