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GetSerialConsoleAccessStatus - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

GetSerialConsoleAccessStatus

Retrieves the access status of your account to the EC2 serial console of all instances. By default, access to the EC2 serial console is disabled for your account. For more information, see Manage account access to the EC2 serial console in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

Request Parameters

For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.

DryRun

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No

Response Elements

The following elements are returned by the service.

managedBy

The entity that manages access to the serial console. Possible values include:

  • account - Access is managed by the account.

  • declarative-policy - Access is managed by a declarative policy and can't be modified by the account.

Type: String

Valid Values: account | declarative-policy

requestId

The ID of the request.

Type: String

serialConsoleAccessEnabled

If true, access to the EC2 serial console of all instances is enabled for your account. If false, access to the EC2 serial console of all instances is disabled for your account.

Type: Boolean

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common client error codes.

See Also

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

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