Request Syntax URI Request Parameters Request Body Response Syntax Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

CreateResponsePlan

Important

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Creates a response plan that automates the initial response to incidents. A response plan engages contacts, starts chat channel collaboration, and initiates runbooks at the beginning of an incident.

Request Syntax


POST /createResponsePlan HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
   "actions": [ 
      { ... }
   ],
   "chatChannel": { ... },
   "clientToken": "string",
   "displayName": "string",
   "engagements": [ "string" ],
   "incidentTemplate": { 
      "dedupeString": "string",
      "impact": number,
      "incidentTags": { 
         "string" : "string" 
      },
      "notificationTargets": [ 
         { ... }
      ],
      "summary": "string",
      "title": "string"
   },
   "integrations": [ 
      { ... }
   ],
   "name": "string",
   "tags": { 
      "string" : "string" 
   }
}

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

actions

The actions that the response plan starts at the beginning of an incident.

Type: Array of Action objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Required: No

chatChannel

The Amazon Q Developer in chat applications chat channel used for collaboration during an incident.

Type: ChatChannel object

Note: This object is a Union. Only one member of this object can be specified or returned.

Required: No

clientToken

A token ensuring that the operation is called only once with the specified details.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 128.

Required: No

displayName

The long format of the response plan name. This field can contain spaces.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 200.

Required: No

engagements

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the contacts and escalation plans that the response plan engages during an incident.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 5 items.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 2048.

Pattern: arn:aws(-cn|-us-gov)?:ssm-contacts:[a-z0-9-]*:([0-9]{12}):contact/[a-z0-9_-]+

Required: No

incidentTemplate

Details used to create an incident when using this response plan.

Type: IncidentTemplate object

Required: Yes

integrations

Information about third-party services integrated into the response plan.

Type: Array of Integration objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Required: No

name

The short format name of the response plan. Can't include spaces.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9-_]*

Required: Yes

tags

A list of tags that you are adding to the response plan.

Type: String to string map

Map Entries: Maximum number of 50 items.

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Key Pattern: (?!aws:)[A-Za-z0-9 _=@:.+-/]+

Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Value Pattern: [A-Za-z0-9 _=@:.+-/]*

Required: No

Response Syntax


HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json

{
   "arn": "string"
}

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

arn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the response plan.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: arn:aws(-cn|-us-gov)?:[a-z0-9-]*:[a-z0-9-]*:([0-9]{12})?:.+

Errors

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

AccessDeniedException

You don't have sufficient access to perform this operation.

HTTP Status Code: 403

ConflictException

Updating or deleting a resource causes an inconsistent state.

HTTP Status Code: 409

InternalServerException

The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ResourceNotFoundException

Request references a resource which doesn't exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ThrottlingException

The request was denied due to request throttling.

HTTP Status Code: 429

ValidationException

The input fails to satisfy the constraints specified by an AWS service.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of CreateResponsePlan.

Sample Request


POST /createResponsePlan HTTP/1.1
Host: ssm-incidents.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
User-Agent: aws-cli/2.2.4 Python/3.8.8 Linux/5.4.129-72.229.amzn2int.x86_64 exe/x86_64.amzn.2 prompt/off command/ssm-incidents.create-response-plan
X-Amz-Date: 20210810T213532Z
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20210810/us-east-1/ssm-incidents/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-date, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE
Content-Length: 652

{
	"actions": [
		{
			"ssmAutomation": {
				"documentName": "AWSIncidents-CriticalIncidentRunbookTemplate", 
				"documentVersion": "$DEFAULT", 
				"roleArn": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/aws-service-role/ssm-incidents.amazonaws.com/AWSServiceRoleForIncidentManager", 
				"targetAccount": "RESPONSE_PLAN_OWNER_ACCOUNT"
			}
		}
	], 
	"chatChannel": {
		"chatbotSns": ["arn:aws:sns:us-east-1:111122223333:Standard_User"]
	}, 
	"displayName": "Example response plan", 
	"engagements": ["arn:aws:ssm-contacts:us-east-1:111122223333:contact/example"], 
	"incidentTemplate": {
		"impact": 5, 
		"title": "example-incident"
	}, 
	"name": "example-response", 
	"clientToken": "aa1b2cde-27e3-42ff-9cac-99380EXAMPLE"
}

Sample Response


{
	"arn":"arn:aws:ssm-incidents::111122223333:response-plan/example-response"
}