Launches a Test Instance for specific Source Servers. This command starts a LAUNCH job whose initiatedBy property is StartTest and changes the SourceServer.lifeCycle.state property to TESTING.
Request Syntax
POST /StartTest HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json
{
"accountID": "string",
"sourceServerIDs": [ "string" ],
"tags": {
"string" : "string"
}
}URI Request Parameters
The request does not use any URI parameters.
Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.
- accountID
-
Start Test for Account ID.
Type: String
Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.
Pattern:
[0-9]{12,}Required: No
- sourceServerIDs
-
Start Test for Source Server IDs.
Type: Array of strings
Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 200 items.
Length Constraints: Fixed length of 19.
Pattern:
^s-[0-9a-zA-Z]{17}$Required: Yes
-
Start Test by Tags.
Type: String to string map
Map Entries: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 50 items.
Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.
Value Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.
Required: No
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 202
Content-type: application/json
{
"job": {
"arn": "string",
"creationDateTime": "string",
"endDateTime": "string",
"initiatedBy": "string",
"jobID": "string",
"participatingServers": [
{
"launchedEc2InstanceID": "string",
"launchStatus": "string",
"postLaunchActionsStatus": {
"postLaunchActionsLaunchStatusList": [
{
"executionID": "string",
"executionStatus": "string",
"failureReason": "string",
"ssmDocument": {
"actionName": "string",
"externalParameters": {
"string" : { ... }
},
"mustSucceedForCutover": boolean,
"parameters": {
"string" : [
{
"parameterName": "string",
"parameterType": "string"
}
]
},
"ssmDocumentName": "string",
"timeoutSeconds": number
},
"ssmDocumentType": "string"
}
],
"ssmAgentDiscoveryDatetime": "string"
},
"sourceServerID": "string"
}
],
"status": "string",
"tags": {
"string" : "string"
},
"type": "string"
}
}Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 202 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
Errors
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
- ConflictException
-
The request could not be completed due to a conflict with the current state of the target resource.
HTTP Status Code: 409
- UninitializedAccountException
-
Uninitialized account exception.
HTTP Status Code: 400
- ValidationException
-
Validate exception.
HTTP Status Code: 400
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
