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GetConnectionStatus - AWS Systems Manager

GetConnectionStatus

Retrieves the Session Manager connection status for a managed node to determine whether it is running and ready to receive Session Manager connections.

Request Syntax

{ "Target": "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.

Target

The managed node ID.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 400.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "Status": "string", "Target": "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.

Status

The status of the connection to the managed node.

Type: String

Valid Values: connected | notconnected

Target

The ID of the managed node to check connection status.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 400.

Errors

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

InternalServerError

An error occurred on the server side.

HTTP Status Code: 500

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of GetConnectionStatus.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ssm.us-east-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity X-Amz-Target: AmazonSSM.GetConnectionStatus 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: 20240221T180655Z Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20240221/us-east-2/ssm/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=39c3b3042cd2aEXAMPLE Content-Length: 33 { "Target": "i-02573cafcfEXAMPLE" }

Sample Response

{ "Status": "connected", "Target": "i-02573cafcfEXAMPLE" }

See Also

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

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