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DescribeScalingProcessTypes - Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling

DescribeScalingProcessTypes

Describes the scaling process types for use with the ResumeProcesses and SuspendProcesses APIs.

Response Elements

The following element is returned by the service.

Processes.member.N

The names of the process types.

Type: Array of ProcessType objects

Errors

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

ResourceContention

You already have a pending update to an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling resource (for example, an Auto Scaling group, instance, or load balancer).

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeScalingProcessTypes.

Sample Request

https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/?Action=DescribeScalingProcessTypes &Version=2011-01-01 &AUTHPARAMS

Sample Response

<DescribeScalingProcessTypesResponse xmlns="https://autoscaling.amazonaws.com/doc/2011-01-01/"> <DescribeScalingProcessTypesResult> <Processes> <member> <ProcessName>AZRebalance</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>AddToLoadBalancer</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>AlarmNotification</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>HealthCheck</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>InstanceRefresh</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>Launch</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>ReplaceUnhealthy</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>ScheduledActions</ProcessName> </member> <member> <ProcessName>Terminate</ProcessName> </member> </Processes> </DescribeScalingProcessTypesResult> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>7c6e177f-f082-11e1-ac58-3714bEXAMPLE</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DescribeScalingProcessTypesResponse>

See Also

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

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