CreateTrafficMirrorTarget
Creates a target for your Traffic Mirror session.
A Traffic Mirror target is the destination for mirrored traffic. The Traffic Mirror source and the Traffic Mirror target (monitoring appliances) can be in the same VPC, or in different VPCs connected via VPC peering or a transit gateway.
A Traffic Mirror target can be a network interface, a Network Load Balancer, or a Gateway Load Balancer endpoint.
To use the target in a Traffic Mirror session, use CreateTrafficMirrorSession.
Request Parameters
The following parameters are for this specific action. For more information about required and optional parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Query Parameters.
- ClientToken
-
Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see How to ensure idempotency.
Type: String
Required: No
- Description
-
The description of the Traffic Mirror target.
Type: String
Required: No
- 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 isUnauthorizedOperation.Type: Boolean
Required: No
- GatewayLoadBalancerEndpointId
-
The ID of the Gateway Load Balancer endpoint.
Type: String
Required: No
- NetworkInterfaceId
-
The network interface ID that is associated with the target.
Type: String
Required: No
- NetworkLoadBalancerArn
-
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Network Load Balancer that is associated with the target.
Type: String
Required: No
- TagSpecification.N
-
The tags to assign to the Traffic Mirror target.
Type: Array of TagSpecification objects
Required: No
Response Elements
The following elements are returned by the service.
- clientToken
-
Unique, case-sensitive identifier that you provide to ensure the idempotency of the request. For more information, see How to ensure idempotency.
Type: String
- requestId
-
The ID of the request.
Type: String
- trafficMirrorTarget
-
Information about the Traffic Mirror target.
Type: TrafficMirrorTarget object
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:
