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Synopsis

Calls the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ReportInstanceStatus API operation.

Syntax

Send-EC2InstanceStatus
-Instance <String[]>
-StartTime <DateTime>
-EndTime <DateTime>
-ReasonCode <String[]>
-Description <String>
-UtcEndTime <DateTime>
-UtcStartTime <DateTime>
-Status <ReportStatusType>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>

Description

Submits feedback about the status of an instance. The instance must be in the running state. If your experience with the instance differs from the instance status returned by DescribeInstanceStatus, use ReportInstanceStatus to report your experience with the instance. Amazon EC2 collects this information to improve the accuracy of status checks. Use of this action does not change the value returned by DescribeInstanceStatus.

Parameters

-Description <String>
Descriptive text about the health state of your instance.
Required?False
Position?5
Accept pipeline input?False
-EndTime <DateTime>
This property is deprecated. Setting this property results in non-UTC DateTimes not being marshalled correctly. Use EndTimeUtc instead. Setting either EndTime or EndTimeUtc results in both EndTime and EndTimeUtc being assigned, the latest assignment to either one of the two property is reflected in the value of both. EndTime is provided for backwards compatibility only and assigning a non-Utc DateTime to it results in the wrong timestamp being passed to the service.The time at which the reported instance health state ended.This parameter is deprecated.
Required?False
Position?3
Accept pipeline input?False
-Force <SwitchParameter>
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?False
-Instance <String[]>
The instances.
Required?False
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, )
AliasesInstanceId, Instances
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Returns the value passed to the Instance parameter. By default, this cmdlet does not generate any output.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?False
-ReasonCode <String[]>
The reason codes that describe the health state of your instance.
  • instance-stuck-in-state: My instance is stuck in a state.
  • unresponsive: My instance is unresponsive.
  • not-accepting-credentials: My instance is not accepting my credentials.
  • password-not-available: A password is not available for my instance.
  • performance-network: My instance is experiencing performance problems that I believe are network related.
  • performance-instance-store: My instance is experiencing performance problems that I believe are related to the instance stores.
  • performance-ebs-volume: My instance is experiencing performance problems that I believe are related to an EBS volume.
  • performance-other: My instance is experiencing performance problems.
  • other: [explain using the description parameter]
Required?False
Position?4
Accept pipeline input?False
AliasesReasonCodes
-StartTime <DateTime>
This property is deprecated. Setting this property results in non-UTC DateTimes not being marshalled correctly. Use StartTimeUtc instead. Setting either StartTime or StartTimeUtc results in both StartTime and StartTimeUtc being assigned, the latest assignment to either one of the two property is reflected in the value of both. StartTime is provided for backwards compatibility only and assigning a non-Utc DateTime to it results in the wrong timestamp being passed to the service.The time at which the reported instance health state began.This parameter is deprecated.
Required?False
Position?2
Accept pipeline input?False
-Status <ReportStatusType>
The status of all instances listed.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?False
-UtcEndTime <DateTime>
The time at which the reported instance health state ended.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?False
-UtcStartTime <DateTime>
The time at which the reported instance health state began.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?False

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-ProfileLocation <String>

Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)

If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials. Note that the encrypted credential file is not supported on all platforms. It will be skipped when searching for profiles on Windows Nano Server, Mac, and Linux platforms.

If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.

As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-Region <String>
The system name of the AWS region in which the operation should be invoked. For example, us-east-1, eu-west-1 etc.
Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False
-EndpointUrl <String>

The endpoint to make the call against.

Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.

Required? False
Position? Named
Accept pipeline input? False

Inputs

System.String[]
You can pipe a String[] object to this cmdlet for the Instance parameter.

Outputs

None or System.String
When you use the PassThru parameter, this cmdlet outputs the value supplied to the Instance parameter. Otherwise, this cmdlet does not return any output. The service response (type Amazon.EC2.Model.ReportInstanceStatusResponse) can be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.

Examples

Example 1

PS C:\> Send-EC2InstanceStatus -Instance i-12345678 -Status impaired -ReasonCode unresponsive
This example reports status feedback for the specified instance.
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AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z