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| TXAWS-DISCOVER(1) | User Commands | TXAWS-DISCOVER(1) |
NAME¶
txaws-discover - txAWS AWS API discovery tool
SYNOPSIS¶
txaws-discover [--key KEY] [--secret SECRET] [--endpoint ENDPOINT]
DESCRIPTION¶
Purpose: Invoke an EC2 API method with arbitrary parameters.
- --action ACTION [PARAMETERS, ...]
OPTIONS¶
- --key
- The AWS access key to use when making the API request.
- --secret
- The AWS secret key to use when making the API request.
- --endpoint
- The region endpoint to make the API request against.
- --action
- The name of the EC2 API to invoke.
- -h, --help
- Show help message.
Description:¶
- The purpose of this program is to aid discovery of the EC2 API.
- It can run
- any EC2 API method, with arbitrary parameters.
- The response received from
- the backend cloud is printed to the screen, to show exactly what happened in response to the request. The --key, --secret, --endpoint and --action command-line arguments are required. If AWS_ENDPOINT, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables are defined the corresponding options can be omitted and the values defined in the environment variables will be used.
- Any additional parameters, beyond those defined above, will be included with the request as method parameters.
EXAMPLES¶
- The following examples omit the --key, --secret and --endpoint command-line arguments for brevity. They must be included unless corresponding values are available from the environment.
- Run the DescribeRegions method, without any optional parameters:
- txaws-discover --action DescribeRegions
- Run the DescribeRegions method, with an optional RegionName.0 parameter:
- txaws-discover --action DescribeRegions --RegionName.0 us-west-1
| May 2012 | txaws-discover 0.2.3 |