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DescribeLocationNfs

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DescribeLocationNfs - AWS DataSync

Provides details about how an AWS DataSync transfer location for a Network File System (NFS) file server is configured.

Request Syntax

{ "LocationArn": "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.

LocationArn

Specifies the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the NFS location that you want information about.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^arn:(aws|aws-cn|aws-us-gov|aws-iso|aws-iso-b):datasync:[a-z\-0-9]+:[0-9]{12}:location/loc-[0-9a-z]{17}$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "CreationTime": number, "LocationArn": "string", "LocationUri": "string", "MountOptions": { "Version": "string" }, "OnPremConfig": { "AgentArns": [ "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.

CreationTime

The time when the NFS location was created.

Type: Timestamp

LocationArn

The ARN of the NFS location.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: ^arn:(aws|aws-cn|aws-us-gov|aws-iso|aws-iso-b):datasync:[a-z\-0-9]+:[0-9]{12}:location/loc-[0-9a-z]{17}$

LocationUri

The URI of the NFS location.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 4360.

Pattern: ^(efs|nfs|s3|smb|hdfs|fsx[a-z0-9-]+)://[a-zA-Z0-9.:/\-]+$

MountOptions

The mount options that DataSync uses to mount your NFS file server.

Type: NfsMountOptions object

OnPremConfig

The AWS DataSync agents that can connect to your Network File System (NFS) file server.

Type: OnPremConfig object

Errors

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

InternalException

This exception is thrown when an error occurs in the AWS DataSync service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidRequestException

This exception is thrown when the client submits a malformed request.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

The following example returns information about the NFS location specified in the sample request.

Sample Request

{ "LocationArn": "arn:aws:datasync:us-east-2:111222333444:location/loc-07db7abfc326c50aa" }

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeLocationNfs.

Sample Response

{ "CreationTime": 1532660733.39, "LocationArn": "arn:aws:datasync:us-east-2:111222333444:location/loc-07db7abfc326c50aa", "LocationUri": "hostname.amazon.com", "OnPremConfig": { "AgentArns": [ "arn:aws:datasync:us-east-2:111222333444:agent/agent-0b0addbeef44b3nfs" ] } }

See Also

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

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