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DescribeJobs - AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

DescribeJobs

Returns a list of Jobs. Use the JobsID and fromDate and toDate filters to limit which jobs are returned. The response is sorted by creationDataTime - latest date first. Jobs are created by the StartRecovery, TerminateRecoveryInstances and StartFailbackLaunch APIs. Jobs are also created by DiagnosticLaunch and TerminateDiagnosticInstances, which are APIs available only to *Support* and only used in response to relevant support tickets.

Request Syntax

POST /DescribeJobs HTTP/1.1 Content-type: application/json { "filters": { "fromDate": "string", "jobIDs": [ "string" ], "toDate": "string" }, "maxResults": number, "nextToken": "string" }

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

filters

A set of filters by which to return Jobs.

Type: DescribeJobsRequestFilters object

Required: No

maxResults

Maximum number of Jobs to retrieve.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No

nextToken

The token of the next Job to retrieve.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 2048.

Required: No

Response Syntax

HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "items": [ { "arn": "string", "creationDateTime": "string", "endDateTime": "string", "initiatedBy": "string", "jobID": "string", "participatingResources": [ { "launchStatus": "string", "participatingResourceID": { ... } } ], "participatingServers": [ { "launchActionsStatus": { "runs": [ { "action": { "actionCode": "string", "actionId": "string", "actionVersion": "string", "active": boolean, "category": "string", "description": "string", "name": "string", "optional": boolean, "order": number, "parameters": { "string" : { "type": "string", "value": "string" } }, "type": "string" }, "failureReason": "string", "runId": "string", "status": "string" } ], "ssmAgentDiscoveryDatetime": "string" }, "launchStatus": "string", "recoveryInstanceID": "string", "sourceServerID": "string" } ], "status": "string", "tags": { "string" : "string" }, "type": "string" } ], "nextToken": "string" }

Response Elements

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

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

items

An array of Jobs.

Type: Array of Job objects

nextToken

The token of the next Job to retrieve.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 2048.

Errors

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

InternalServerException

The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception or failure.

HTTP Status Code: 500

ThrottlingException

The request was denied due to request throttling.

HTTP Status Code: 429

UninitializedAccountException

The account performing the request has not been initialized.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ValidationException

The input fails to satisfy the constraints specified by the AWS service.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

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

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