Enables the specified rule. If the rule does not exist, the operation fails.
When you enable a rule, incoming events might not immediately start matching to a newly enabled rule. Allow a short period of time for changes to take effect.
Request Syntax
{
"EventBusName": "string",
"Name": "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.
- EventBusName
-
The name or ARN of the event bus associated with the rule. If you omit this, the default event bus is used.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1600.
Pattern:
(arn:aws[\w-]*:events:[a-z]{2}-[a-z]+-[\w-]+:[0-9]{12}:event-bus\/)?[/\.\-_A-Za-z0-9]+Required: No
- Name
-
The name of the rule.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 64.
Pattern:
[\.\-_A-Za-z0-9]+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.
- ConcurrentModificationException
-
There is concurrent modification on a rule, target, archive, or replay.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- InternalException
-
This exception occurs due to unexpected causes.
HTTP Status Code: 500
- ManagedRuleException
-
This rule was created by an AWS service on behalf of your account. It is managed by that service. If you see this error in response to
DeleteRuleorRemoveTargets, you can use theForceparameter in those calls to delete the rule or remove targets from the rule. You cannot modify these managed rules by usingDisableRule,EnableRule,PutTargets,PutRule,TagResource, orUntagResource.HTTP Status Code: 400
- ResourceNotFoundException
-
An entity that you specified does not exist.
HTTP Status Code: 400
Examples
Enables a rule named "test"
The following is an example of an EnableRule request.
Sample Request
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: events.<region>.<domain>
x-amz-Date: <Date>
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<Credential>, SignedHeaders=content-type;date;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target;x-amzn-requestid, Signature=<Signature>
User-Agent: <UserAgentString>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive
X-Amz-Target: AWSEvents.EnableRule
{
"Name": "test"
}Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: <RequestId>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Date: <Date>See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
