Amazon EC2: Get Instance Properties
Description
Use the step to fetch the properties of all EC2 instances on the specified Amazon AWS cloud account.
Prerequisites
- Amazon AWS cloud instance with access details.
- Login details to authenticate to Amazon AWS cloud. For details, see To create Access Key ID and Secret Access Key.
Note:
As this step generates multiple rows use this as the first step in the workflow.
Configurations
| Field name | Description |
|---|---|
| Step Name | Specify a unique name for the step. |
| CONNECTION tab: | Connection fields |
| Region | Specify the region where the instance is hosted or choose a region from the Region Explorer window. |
| Button: Get | Click Get button to open the Region Explorer window. Choose a Region. |
| Access Key | Specify an Access Key to authenticate EC2 instance on Amazon AWS cloud. This field is mandatory. |
| Secret Key | Specify a Secret Key to authenticate Amazon AWS cloud. This field is mandatory. |
| Button: Test Connection | Click Test Connection button to verify whether the connection is available or not. Region, Access key and Secret Key are mandatory to authenticate Amazon AWS cloud. For the purpose of verification fields coming from previous steps are not allowed since field values can only be accessed when workflow is in running state. Static (hardcoded) values and environment variables are allowed. It will not work for previous step fields. |
| OUTPUT tab: | Output fields (Tabular) |
| Field Name | On click of the cell in the output table, if the connection is successfully established, it populates the list of instance properties. Select an instance property in a field or many in the table as desired. |
| Output Field | Specify an output field to hold the field values for the field name specified above. |