Use DescribeInstanceAssociationsStatus with a CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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Use DescribeInstanceAssociationsStatus with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use DescribeInstanceAssociationsStatus.

CLI
AWS CLI

To describe the status of an instance's associations

This example shows details of the associations for an instance.

Command:

aws ssm describe-instance-associations-status --instance-id "i-1234567890abcdef0"

Output:

{
  "InstanceAssociationStatusInfos": [
      {
          "AssociationId": "8dfe3659-4309-493a-8755-0123456789ab",
          "Name": "AWS-GatherSoftwareInventory",
          "DocumentVersion": "1",
          "AssociationVersion": "1",
          "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
          "ExecutionDate": 1550501886.0,
          "Status": "Success",
          "ExecutionSummary": "1 out of 1 plugin processed, 1 success, 0 failed, 0 timedout, 0 skipped. ",
          "AssociationName": "Inventory-Association"
      },
      {
          "AssociationId": "5c5a31f6-6dae-46f9-944c-0123456789ab",
          "Name": "AWS-UpdateSSMAgent",
          "DocumentVersion": "1",
          "AssociationVersion": "1",
          "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
          "ExecutionDate": 1550505828.548,
          "Status": "Success",
          "DetailedStatus": "Success",
          "AssociationName": "UpdateSSMAgent"
      }
  ]
}
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example shows details of the associations for an instance.

Get-SSMInstanceAssociationsStatus -InstanceId "i-0000293ffd8c57862"

Output:

AssociationId    : d8617c07-2079-4c18-9847-1655fc2698b0
DetailedStatus   : Pending
DocumentVersion  : 1
ErrorCode        :
ExecutionDate    : 2/20/2015 8:31:11 AM
ExecutionSummary : temp_status_change
InstanceId       : i-0000293ffd8c57862
Name             : AWS-UpdateSSMAgent
OutputUrl        :
Status           : Pending

Example 2: This example checks the instance association status for the given instance id and further, displays the execution status of those associations

Get-SSMInstanceAssociationsStatus -InstanceId i-012e3cb4df567e8aa | ForEach-Object {Get-SSMAssociationExecution -AssociationId .AssociationId}

Output:

AssociationId         : 512a34a5-c678-1234-1234-12345678db9e
AssociationVersion    : 2
CreatedTime           : 3/2/2019 8:53:29 AM
DetailedStatus        :
ExecutionId           : 512a34a5-c678-1234-1234-12345678db9e
LastExecutionDate     : 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM
ResourceCountByStatus : {Success=9}
Status                : Success