Creating OpsItems manually (PowerShell)

The following procedure describes how to create an OpsItem by using AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell.

To create an OpsItem using AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell

1. Open AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell and run the following command to specify your credentials.

   Set-AWSCredentials –AccessKey key-name –SecretKey key-name

2. Run the following command to set the AWS Region for your PowerShell session.

   Set-DefaultAWSRegion -Region Region

3. Run the following command to create a new OpsItem. Replace each example resource placeholder with your own information. This command specifies a Systems Manager Automation runbook for remediating this OpsItem.

   $opsItem = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue
   $opsItem.Type = [Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.OpsItemDataType]::SearchableString 
   $opsItem.Value = '[{\"automationId\":\"runbook_name\",\"automationType\":\"AWS::SSM::Automation\"}]'
   $newHash = @{" /aws/automations"=[Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue]$opsItem}
   
   New-SSMOpsItem `
       -Title "title" `
       -Description "description" `
       -Priority priority_number `
       -Source AWS_service `
       -OperationalData $newHash

   If successful, the command outputs the ID of the new OpsItem.

The following example specifies the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an impaired Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance.

$opsItem = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue
$opsItem.Type = [Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.OpsItemDataType]::SearchableString 
$opsItem.Value = '[{\"arn\":\"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/i-1234567890abcdef0\"}]'
$newHash = @{" /aws/resources"=[Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue]$opsItem}
New-SSMOpsItem -Title "EC2 instance disk full still" -Description "Log clean up may have failed which caused the disk to be full" -Priority 2 -Source ec2 -OperationalData $newHash