Use GetInventory with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use GetInventory.

CLI

AWS CLI

To view your inventory

This example gets the custom metadata for your inventory.

Command:

aws ssm get-inventory

Output:

{
  "Entities": [
      {
          "Data": {
              "AWS:InstanceInformation": {
                  "Content": [
                      {
                          "ComputerName": "ip-172-31-44-222.us-west-2.compute.internal",
                          "InstanceId": "i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f",
                          "IpAddress": "172.31.44.222",
                          "AgentType": "amazon-ssm-agent",
                          "ResourceType": "EC2Instance",
                          "AgentVersion": "2.0.672.0",
                          "PlatformVersion": "2016.09",
                          "PlatformName": "Amazon Linux AMI",
                          "PlatformType": "Linux"
                      }
                  ],
                  "TypeName": "AWS:InstanceInformation",
                  "SchemaVersion": "1.0",
                  "CaptureTime": "2017-02-20T18:03:58Z"
              }
          },
          "Id": "i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f"
      }
  ]
}

• For API details, see GetInventory in AWS CLI Command Reference.

PowerShell

Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example gets the custom metadata for your inventory.

Get-SSMInventory

Output:

Data                                                                                  Id
----                                                                                  --
{[AWS:InstanceInformation, Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.InventoryResultItem]} i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f

• For API details, see GetInventory in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.