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DeleteActivation - AWS Systems Manager

DeleteActivation

Deletes an activation. You aren't required to delete an activation. If you delete an activation, you can no longer use it to register additional managed nodes. Deleting an activation doesn't de-register managed nodes. You must manually de-register managed nodes.

Request Syntax

{ "ActivationId": "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.

ActivationId

The ID of the activation that you want to delete.

Type: String

Pattern: ^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

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

InternalServerError

An error occurred on the server side.

HTTP Status Code: 500

InvalidActivation

The activation isn't valid. The activation might have been deleted, or the ActivationId and the ActivationCode don't match.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidActivationId

The activation ID isn't valid. Verify that you entered the correct ActivationId or ActivationCode and try again.

HTTP Status Code: 400

TooManyUpdates

There are concurrent updates for a resource that supports one update at a time.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of DeleteActivation.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ssm.us-east-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity X-Amz-Target: AmazonSSM.DeleteActivation Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 User-Agent: aws-cli/1.17.12 Python/3.6.8 Darwin/18.7.0 botocore/1.14.12 X-Amz-Date: 20240324T151218Z Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20240324/us-east-2/ssm/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE Content-Length: 56 { "ActivationId": "e488f2f6-e686-4afb-8a04-ef6dfEXAMPLE" }

Sample Response

{}

See Also

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

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