StartConfigurationRecorder - Amazon Config
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StartConfigurationRecorder

Starts recording configurations of the Amazon resources you have selected to record in your Amazon Web Services account.

You must have created at least one delivery channel to successfully start the configuration recorder.

Request Syntax

{ "ConfigurationRecorderName": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ConfigurationRecorderName

The name of the recorder object that records each configuration change made to the resources.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

NoAvailableDeliveryChannelException

There is no delivery channel available to record configurations.

HTTP Status Code: 400

NoSuchConfigurationRecorderException

You have specified a configuration recorder that does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: