Ubuntu Manpage: ec2-describe-instance-status - Describe the status for instances and see if there are any

Provided by: ec2-api-tools_1.6.12.0-0ubuntu1_all

NAME

       ec2-describe-instance-status  - Describe the status for instances and see if there are any
       associated events

SYNOPSIS

        ec2dins ([ec2-describe-instance-status])
        ec2dins [GENERAL OPTIONS] [-h] [INSTANCE [INSTANCE [...]]]

GENERAL NOTES

        Any command option/parameter may be passed a value of '-' to indicate
        that values for that option should be read from stdin.

DESCRIPTION

        Describe the status for one or more instances.
        Checks are performed on your instances to determine if they are
        in running order or not. Use this command to see the result of these
        instance checks so that you can take remedial action if possible.

        There are two types of checks performed: INSTANCE and SYSTEM.
        INSTANCE checks examine the health and reachability of the
        application environment. SYSTEM checks examine the health of
        the infrastructure surrounding your instance.

        How Retirement Works:
        ---------------------
        It may happen the instance host becomes unhealthy, requiring all
        instances on that host to be evicted at a future point in time.
        Your instance(s) will be marked as RETIRING, with the date of when
        they will be forcefully evicted from the host.

        Your instance will not be restarted if it is forcefully evicted from
        a retiring host. Avoid eviction by manually restarting your instance
        when it shows as RETIRING. This ensures your instance is started on
        a healthy host.

        How Events Work:
        ----------------
        An event is a reminder of an operation that will affect this instance.
        The fields NotBefore and NotAfter indicate the scheduled date that the
        event comes into effect:
         * NotBefore: the event will not occur before this time
         * NotAfter: the event will not occur after this time

GENERAL OPTIONS

-O, --aws-access-key KEY
AWS Access Key ID. Defaults to the value of the AWS_ACCESS_KEY
environment variable (if set).

-W, --aws-secret-key KEY
AWS Secret Access Key. Defaults to the value of the AWS_SECRET_KEY
environment variable (if set).

-T, --security-token TOKEN
AWS delegation token. Defaults to the value of the AWS_DELEGATION_TOKEN
environment variable (if set).

-K, --private-key KEY
[DEPRECATED] Specify KEY as the private key to use. Defaults to the value of the
EC2_PRIVATE_KEY environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.

-C, --cert CERT
[DEPRECATED] Specify CERT as the X509 certificate to use. Defaults to the value
of the EC2_CERT environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.

-U, --url URL
Specify URL as the web service URL to use. Defaults to the value of
'https://ec2.amazonaws.com' (us-east-1) or to that of the
EC2_URL environment variable (if set). Overrides the default.

--region REGION
Specify REGION as the web service region to use.
This option will override the URL specified by the "-U URL" option
and EC2_URL environment variable.
This option defaults to the region specified by the EC2_URL environment variable
or us-east-1 if this environment variable is not set.

-D, --auth-dry-run
Check if you can perform the requested action rather than actually performing it.

-v, --verbose
Verbose output.

-?, --help
Display this help.

-H, --headers
Display column headers.

--debug
Display additional debugging information.

--show-empty-fields
Indicate empty fields.

--hide-tags
Do not display tags for tagged resources.

--connection-timeout TIMEOUT
Specify a connection timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).

--request-timeout TIMEOUT
Specify a request timeout TIMEOUT (in seconds).

SPECIFIC OPTIONS