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DescribeAssessmentTargets

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DescribeAssessmentTargets - Amazon Inspector Classic

Describes the assessment targets that are specified by the ARNs of the assessment targets.

Request Syntax

{ "assessmentTargetArns": [ "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.

assessmentTargetArns

The ARNs that specifies the assessment targets that you want to describe.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 10 items.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 300.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "assessmentTargets": [ { "arn": "string", "createdAt": number, "name": "string", "resourceGroupArn": "string", "updatedAt": number } ], "failedItems": { "string" : { "failureCode": "string", "retryable": boolean } } }

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.

assessmentTargets

Information about the assessment targets.

Type: Array of AssessmentTarget objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 10 items.

failedItems

Assessment target details that cannot be described. An error code is provided for each failed item.

Type: String to FailedItemDetails object map

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 300.

Errors

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

InternalException

Internal server error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidInputException

The request was rejected because an invalid or out-of-range value was supplied for an input parameter.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DescribeAssessmentTargets.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: inspector.us-west-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 88 X-Amz-Target: InspectorService.DescribeAssessmentTargets X-Amz-Date: 20160323T214315Z User-Agent: aws-cli/1.10.12 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 botocore/1.4.3 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Authorization: AUTHPARAMS { "assessmentTargetArns": [ "arn:aws:inspector:us-west-2:123456789012:target/0-0kFIPusq" ] }

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amzn-RequestId: 407ddf01-f140-11e5-823c-bd257ba1495d Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 287 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:43:16 GMT { "assessmentTargets": [ { "arn": "arn:aws:inspector:us-west-2:123456789012:target/0-0kFIPusq", "createdAt": 1458074191.459, "name": "ExampleAssessmentTarget", "resourceGroupArn": "arn:aws:inspector:us-west-2:123456789012:resourcegroup/0-PyGXopAI", "updatedAt": 1458074191.459 } ], "failedItems": {} }

See Also

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

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