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CancelMaintenanceWindowExecution - AWS Systems Manager

CancelMaintenanceWindowExecution

Stops a maintenance window execution that is already in progress and cancels any tasks in the window that haven't already starting running. Tasks already in progress will continue to completion.

Request Syntax

{ "WindowExecutionId": "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.

WindowExecutionId

The ID of the maintenance window execution to stop.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "WindowExecutionId": "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.

WindowExecutionId

The ID of the maintenance window execution that has been stopped.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 36.

Pattern: ^[0-9a-fA-F]{8}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}\-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}$

Errors

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

DoesNotExistException

Error returned when the ID specified for a resource, such as a maintenance window or patch baseline, doesn't exist.

For information about resource quotas in AWS Systems Manager, see Systems Manager service quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InternalServerError

An error occurred on the server side.

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of CancelMaintenanceWindowExecution.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ssm.us-east-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity X-Amz-Target: AmazonSSM.CancelMaintenanceWindowExecution Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 User-Agent: aws-cli/2.0.0 Python/3.7.5 Windows/10 botocore/2.0.0dev4 X-Amz-Date: 20240225T010054Z Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20240225/us-east-2/ssm/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE Content-Length: 61 { "WindowExecutionId": "02f05632-d0bc-470d-b1e5-c59a8EXAMPLE" }

Sample Response

{ "WindowExecutionId": "02f05632-d0bc-470d-b1e5-c59a8EXAMPLE" }

See Also

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

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