Use DescribeInstancePatchStates with a CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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Use DescribeInstancePatchStates with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribeInstancePatchStates.

CLI
AWS CLI

To get the patch summary states for instances

This describe-instance-patch-states example gets the patch summary states for an instance.

aws ssm describe-instance-patch-states \ --instance-ids "i-1234567890abcdef0"

Output:

{ "InstancePatchStates": [ { "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0", "PatchGroup": "my-patch-group", "BaselineId": "pb-0713accee01234567", "SnapshotId": "521c3536-930c-4aa9-950e-01234567abcd", "CriticalNonCompliantCount": 2, "SecurityNonCompliantCount": 2, "OtherNonCompliantCount": 1, "InstalledCount": 123, "InstalledOtherCount": 334, "InstalledPendingRebootCount": 0, "InstalledRejectedCount": 0, "MissingCount": 1, "FailedCount": 2, "UnreportedNotApplicableCount": 11, "NotApplicableCount": 2063, "OperationStartTime": "2021-05-03T11:00:56-07:00", "OperationEndTime": "2021-05-03T11:01:09-07:00", "Operation": "Scan", "LastNoRebootInstallOperationTime": "2020-06-14T12:17:41-07:00", "RebootOption": "RebootIfNeeded" } ] }

For more information, see About Patch Compliance in the AWS Systems Manager User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example gets the patch summary states for an instance.

Get-SSMInstancePatchState -InstanceId "i-08ee91c0b17045407"

Example 2: This example gets the patch summary states for two instances.

Get-SSMInstancePatchState -InstanceId "i-08ee91c0b17045407","i-09a618aec652973a9"