NAME

       as-describe-policies - Describes the specified policies.

SYNOPSIS

        as-describe-policies
           [PolicyNames [PolicyNames ...] ] [--auto-scaling-group  value ]
           [--max-records  value ]  [General Options]

DESCRIPTION

           Describes the specified policies, if specified policies exist.

ARGUMENTS

        PolicyNames
           Optional list of policy names or policy ARNs to be described.
                        It is not valid to mix policy names and policy ARNs.
                            If this list is omitted, all policy names are described.
                                    If an Auto Scaling group name is provided, the
           results are limited to that group.                          The list of
           requested policy names cannot contain more than 50 items.
                    If unknown policy names are requested, they are ignored with no
           error.

SPECIFIC OPTIONS

        -g, --auto-scaling-group VALUE
           No description available for this parameter.

        --max-records VALUE
           Maximum number of policies that will be described with each call (default
           = 20, max = 50).

GENERAL OPTIONS

        --aws-credential-file VALUE
           Location of the file with your AWS credentials. This value can be set by
           using the environment variable 'AWS_CREDENTIAL_FILE'.

        -C, --ec2-cert-file-path VALUE
           Path to the file holding the X.509 certificate. This value can be set by
           using the environment variable 'EC2_CERT'.

        --connection-timeout VALUE
           Connection timeout (in seconds). The default value is '30'.

        --delimiter VALUE
           The delimiter to use when displaying delimited (long) results.

        -H, --headers
           For displaying tabular or delimited results, it includes the column
           headers. For displaying XML results, it returns the HTTP headers from the
           service request, if applicable. This is off by default.

        -I, --access-key-id VALUE
           The AWS access ID to use.

        -K, --ec2-private-key-file-path VALUE
           Path to the file holding the X.509 private key. This value can be set by
           using the environment variable 'EC2_PRIVATE_KEY'.

        --region VALUE
           Amazon EC2 region to use. This value can be set by using the environment
           variable 'EC2_REGION'.

        -S, --secret-key VALUE
           The AWS Secret Key to use.

        --show-empty-fields
           Shows empty fields and rows, using a (nil) value. The default is to not
           show empty fields or columns.

        --show-request
           Displays the URL the tools used to call the AWS Service. The default
           value is 'false'.

        --show-table, --show-long, --show-xml, --quiet
           The way in which the results are displayed: tabular, delimited (long),
           XML or no output (quiet). Tabular shows a subset of the data in fixed
           column-width form, while long shows all of the returned values delimited
           by a character, XML is the raw return from the service and quiet
           suppresses all standard output. The default is tabular, or 'show-table'.

        -U, --url VALUE
           This option will override the URL for the service call with VALUE. This
           value can be set by using the environment variable
           'AWS_AUTO_SCALING_URL'.

INPUT EXAMPLES

        Describes all of the user's policies in group test-group.

        $PROMPT> as-describe-policies -g test-group

        Describes more of the user's policies in test-group.

        $PROMPT> as-describe-policies -g test-group --token token-1

        Describes user's policies 'test-policy1' and 'test-policy2' in group
        test-group, if the specified policies exist.

        $PROMPT> as-describe-policies test-policy1 test-policy2 -g test-group

OUTPUT

        This command returns a table that contains the following:
        * GROUP-NAME - Name of the Auto Scaling group.
        * POLICY-NAME - Name of the policy.
        * SCALING-ADJUSTMENT - Scaling adjustment used when scaling a group using
        this policy.
        * MIN-ADJUSTMENT-STEP - MinAdjustmentStep used when scaling a group using
        this policy.
        * ADJUSTMENT-TYPE - Adjustment type (whether the adjustment is
        ExactCapacity/ChangeInCapacity/PercentChangeInCapacity).
        * COOLDOWN - Time (in seconds) between a successful scaling activity and
        succeeding scaling activity.
        * POLICY-ARN - ARN that references this policy.
        * ALARM-NAME - Name of the alarm.
        * ALARM-ARN - No description available for this column. This column appears
        only in the --show-long view.
        * POLICY-NAME - Name of the policy.
        * POLICY-ARN - No description available for this column. This column appears
        only in the --show-long view.

OUTPUT EXAMPLES

        This is an example output for a policy.

SEE ALSO

         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AutoScaling//DeveloperGuide/
         http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AutoScaling/latest/DeveloperGuide/