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Command Reference

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Synopsis

Calls the AWS Systems Manager CreateAssociation API operation.

Syntax

New-SSMAssociation
-InstanceId <String>
-AlarmConfiguration_Alarm <Alarm[]>
-ApplyOnlyAtCronInterval <Boolean>
-AssociationName <String>
-AutomationTargetParameterName <String>
-CalendarName <String[]>
-ComplianceSeverity <AssociationComplianceSeverity>
-DocumentVersion <String>
-Duration <Int32>
-AlarmConfiguration_IgnorePollAlarmFailure <Boolean>
-MaxConcurrency <String>
-MaxError <String>
-Name <String>
-S3Location_OutputS3BucketName <String>
-S3Location_OutputS3KeyPrefix <String>
-S3Location_OutputS3Region <String>
-Parameter <Hashtable>
-ScheduleExpression <String>
-ScheduleOffset <Int32>
-SyncCompliance <AssociationSyncCompliance>
-Tag <Tag[]>
-TargetLocation <TargetLocation[]>
-TargetMap <Hashtable[]>
-Target <Target[]>
-Select <String>
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
-Force <SwitchParameter>
-ClientConfig <AmazonSimpleSystemsManagementConfig>

Description

A State Manager association defines the state that you want to maintain on your managed nodes. For example, an association can specify that anti-virus software must be installed and running on your managed nodes, or that certain ports must be closed. For static targets, the association specifies a schedule for when the configuration is reapplied. For dynamic targets, such as an Amazon Web Services resource group or an Amazon Web Services autoscaling group, State Manager, a capability of Amazon Web Services Systems Manager applies the configuration when new managed nodes are added to the group. The association also specifies actions to take when applying the configuration. For example, an association for anti-virus software might run once a day. If the software isn't installed, then State Manager installs it. If the software is installed, but the service isn't running, then the association might instruct State Manager to start the service.

Parameters

-AlarmConfiguration_Alarm <Alarm[]>
The name of the CloudWatch alarm specified in the configuration.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAlarmConfiguration_Alarms
-AlarmConfiguration_IgnorePollAlarmFailure <Boolean>
When this value is true, your automation or command continues to run in cases where we can’t retrieve alarm status information from CloudWatch. In cases where we successfully retrieve an alarm status of OK or INSUFFICIENT_DATA, the automation or command continues to run, regardless of this value. Default is false.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ApplyOnlyAtCronInterval <Boolean>
By default, when you create a new association, the system runs it immediately after it is created and then according to the schedule you specified. Specify this option if you don't want an association to run immediately after you create it. This parameter isn't supported for rate expressions.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-AssociationName <String>
Specify a descriptive name for the association.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-AutomationTargetParameterName <String>
Choose the parameter that will define how your automation will branch out. This target is required for associations that use an Automation runbook and target resources by using rate controls. Automation is a capability of Amazon Web Services Systems Manager.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-CalendarName <String[]>
The names or Amazon Resource Names (ARNs) of the Change Calendar type documents you want to gate your associations under. The associations only run when that change calendar is open. For more information, see Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Change Calendar.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesCalendarNames
Amazon.PowerShell.Cmdlets.SSM.AmazonSimpleSystemsManagementClientCmdlet.ClientConfig
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ComplianceSeverity <AssociationComplianceSeverity>
The severity level to assign to the association.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-DocumentVersion <String>
The document version you want to associate with the targets. Can be a specific version or the default version.State Manager doesn't support running associations that use a new version of a document if that document is shared from another account. State Manager always runs the default version of a document if shared from another account, even though the Systems Manager console shows that a new version was processed. If you want to run an association using a new version of a document shared form another account, you must set the document version to default.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Duration <Int32>
The number of hours the association can run before it is canceled. Duration applies to associations that are currently running, and any pending and in progress commands on all targets. If a target was taken offline for the association to run, it is made available again immediately, without a reboot. The Duration parameter applies only when both these conditions are true:
  • The association for which you specify a duration is cancelable according to the parameters of the SSM command document or Automation runbook associated with this execution.
  • The command specifies the ApplyOnlyAtCronInterval parameter, which means that the association doesn't run immediately after it is created, but only according to the specified schedule.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
This parameter overrides confirmation prompts to force the cmdlet to continue its operation. This parameter should always be used with caution.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-InstanceId <String>
The managed node ID.InstanceId has been deprecated. To specify a managed node ID for an association, use the Targets parameter. Requests that include the parameter InstanceID with Systems Manager documents (SSM documents) that use schema version 2.0 or later will fail. In addition, if you use the parameter InstanceId, you can't use the parameters AssociationName, DocumentVersion, MaxErrors, MaxConcurrency, OutputLocation, or ScheduleExpression. To use these parameters, you must use the Targets parameter.
Required?False
Position?1
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-MaxConcurrency <String>
The maximum number of targets allowed to run the association at the same time. You can specify a number, for example 10, or a percentage of the target set, for example 10%. The default value is 100%, which means all targets run the association at the same time.If a new managed node starts and attempts to run an association while Systems Manager is running MaxConcurrency associations, the association is allowed to run. During the next association interval, the new managed node will process its association within the limit specified for MaxConcurrency.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-MaxError <String>
The number of errors that are allowed before the system stops sending requests to run the association on additional targets. You can specify either an absolute number of errors, for example 10, or a percentage of the target set, for example 10%. If you specify 3, for example, the system stops sending requests when the fourth error is received. If you specify 0, then the system stops sending requests after the first error is returned. If you run an association on 50 managed nodes and set MaxError to 10%, then the system stops sending the request when the sixth error is received.Executions that are already running an association when MaxErrors is reached are allowed to complete, but some of these executions may fail as well. If you need to ensure that there won't be more than max-errors failed executions, set MaxConcurrency to 1 so that executions proceed one at a time.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesMaxErrors
-Name <String>
The name of the SSM Command document or Automation runbook that contains the configuration information for the managed node.You can specify Amazon Web Services-predefined documents, documents you created, or a document that is shared with you from another Amazon Web Services account.For Systems Manager documents (SSM documents) that are shared with you from other Amazon Web Services accounts, you must specify the complete SSM document ARN, in the following format:arn:partition:ssm:region:account-id:document/document-nameFor example:arn:aws:ssm:us-east-2:12345678912:document/My-Shared-DocumentFor Amazon Web Services-predefined documents and SSM documents you created in your account, you only need to specify the document name. For example, AWS-ApplyPatchBaseline or My-Document.
Required?True
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Parameter <Hashtable>
The parameters for the runtime configuration of the document.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesParameters
-PassThru <SwitchParameter>
Changes the cmdlet behavior to return the value passed to the InstanceId parameter. The -PassThru parameter is deprecated, use -Select '^InstanceId' instead. This parameter will be removed in a future version.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-S3Location_OutputS3BucketName <String>
The name of the S3 bucket.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesOutputLocation_S3Location_OutputS3BucketName
-S3Location_OutputS3KeyPrefix <String>
The S3 bucket subfolder.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesOutputLocation_S3Location_OutputS3KeyPrefix
-S3Location_OutputS3Region <String>
The Amazon Web Services Region of the S3 bucket.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesOutputLocation_S3Location_OutputS3Region
-ScheduleExpression <String>
A cron expression when the association will be applied to the targets.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-ScheduleOffset <Int32>
Number of days to wait after the scheduled day to run an association. For example, if you specified a cron schedule of cron(0 0 ? * THU#2 *), you could specify an offset of 3 to run the association each Sunday after the second Thursday of the month. For more information about cron schedules for associations, see Reference: Cron and rate expressions for Systems Manager in the Amazon Web Services Systems Manager User Guide. To use offsets, you must specify the ApplyOnlyAtCronInterval parameter. This option tells the system not to run an association immediately after you create it.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Select <String>
Use the -Select parameter to control the cmdlet output. The default value is 'AssociationDescription'. Specifying -Select '*' will result in the cmdlet returning the whole service response (Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.CreateAssociationResponse). Specifying the name of a property of type Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.CreateAssociationResponse will result in that property being returned. Specifying -Select '^ParameterName' will result in the cmdlet returning the selected cmdlet parameter value.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-SyncCompliance <AssociationSyncCompliance>
The mode for generating association compliance. You can specify AUTO or MANUAL. In AUTO mode, the system uses the status of the association execution to determine the compliance status. If the association execution runs successfully, then the association is COMPLIANT. If the association execution doesn't run successfully, the association is NON-COMPLIANT.In MANUAL mode, you must specify the AssociationId as a parameter for the PutComplianceItems API operation. In this case, compliance data isn't managed by State Manager. It is managed by your direct call to the PutComplianceItems API operation.By default, all associations use AUTO mode.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-Tag <Tag[]>
Adds or overwrites one or more tags for a State Manager association. Tags are metadata that you can assign to your Amazon Web Services resources. Tags enable you to categorize your resources in different ways, for example, by purpose, owner, or environment. Each tag consists of a key and an optional value, both of which you define.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTags
-Target <Target[]>
The targets for the association. You can target managed nodes by using tags, Amazon Web Services resource groups, all managed nodes in an Amazon Web Services account, or individual managed node IDs. You can target all managed nodes in an Amazon Web Services account by specifying the InstanceIds key with a value of *. For more information about choosing targets for an association, see About targets and rate controls in State Manager associations in the Amazon Web Services Systems Manager User Guide.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTargets
-TargetLocation <TargetLocation[]>
A location is a combination of Amazon Web Services Regions and Amazon Web Services accounts where you want to run the association. Use this action to create an association in multiple Regions and multiple accounts.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTargetLocations
-TargetMap <Hashtable[]>
A key-value mapping of document parameters to target resources. Both Targets and TargetMaps can't be specified together.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesTargetMaps

Common Credential and Region Parameters

-AccessKey <String>
The AWS access key for the user account. This can be a temporary access key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAK
-Credential <AWSCredentials>
An AWSCredentials object instance containing access and secret key information, and optionally a token for session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-EndpointUrl <String>
The endpoint to make the call against.Note: This parameter is primarily for internal AWS use and is not required/should not be specified for normal usage. The cmdlets normally determine which endpoint to call based on the region specified to the -Region parameter or set as default in the shell (via Set-DefaultAWSRegion). Only specify this parameter if you must direct the call to a specific custom endpoint.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
-NetworkCredential <PSCredential>
Used with SAML-based authentication when ProfileName references a SAML role profile. Contains the network credentials to be supplied during authentication with the configured identity provider's endpoint. This parameter is not required if the user's default network identity can or should be used during authentication.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)
-ProfileLocation <String>
Used to specify the name and location of the ini-format credential file (shared with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs)If this optional parameter is omitted this cmdlet will search the encrypted credential file used by the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio first. If the profile is not found then the cmdlet will search in the ini-format credential file at the default location: (user's home directory)\.aws\credentials.If this parameter is specified then this cmdlet will only search the ini-format credential file at the location given.As the current folder can vary in a shell or during script execution it is advised that you use specify a fully qualified path instead of a relative path.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesAWSProfilesLocation, ProfilesLocation
-ProfileName <String>
The user-defined name of an AWS credentials or SAML-based role profile containing credential information. The profile is expected to be found in the secure credential file shared with the AWS SDK for .NET and AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. You can also specify the name of a profile stored in the .ini-format credential file used with the AWS CLI and other AWS SDKs.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesStoredCredentials, AWSProfileName
-Region <Object>
The system name of an AWS region or an AWSRegion instance. This governs the endpoint that will be used when calling service operations. Note that the AWS resources referenced in a call are usually region-specific.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesRegionToCall
-SecretKey <String>
The AWS secret key for the user account. This can be a temporary secret key if the corresponding session token is supplied to the -SessionToken parameter.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesSK, SecretAccessKey
-SessionToken <String>
The session token if the access and secret keys are temporary session-based credentials.
Required?False
Position?Named
Accept pipeline input?True (ByPropertyName)
AliasesST

Outputs

This cmdlet returns an Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.AssociationDescription object. The service call response (type Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.CreateAssociationResponse) can also be referenced from properties attached to the cmdlet entry in the $AWSHistory stack.

Examples

Example 1

New-SSMAssociation -InstanceId "i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f" -Name "AWS-UpdateSSMAgent"

Name : AWS-UpdateSSMAgent
InstanceId : i-0000293ffd8c57862
Date : 2/23/2017 6:55:22 PM
Status.Name : Associated
Status.Date : 2/20/2015 8:31:11 AM
Status.Message : Associated with AWS-UpdateSSMAgent
Status.AdditionalInfo :
This example associates a configuration document with an instance, using instance IDs.

Example 2

$target = @{Key="instanceids";Values=@("i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f")}
New-SSMAssociation -Name "AWS-UpdateSSMAgent" -Target $target

Name : AWS-UpdateSSMAgent
InstanceId :
Date : 3/1/2017 6:22:21 PM
Status.Name :
Status.Date :
Status.Message :
Status.AdditionalInfo :
This example associates a configuration document with an instance, using targets.

Example 3

$target = @{Key="instanceids";Values=@("i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f")}
$params = @{
"action"="configure"
"mode"="ec2"
"optionalConfigurationSource"="ssm"
"optionalConfigurationLocation"=""
"optionalRestart"="yes"
}
New-SSMAssociation -Name "Configure-CloudWatch" -AssociationName "CWConfiguration" -Target $target -Parameter $params

Name : Configure-CloudWatch
InstanceId :
Date : 5/17/2018 3:17:44 PM
Status.Name :
Status.Date :
Status.Message :
Status.AdditionalInfo :
This example associates a configuration document with an instance, using targets and parameters.

Example 4

$params = [Collections.Generic.Dictionary[String,Collections.Generic.List[String]]]::new()
$params["windowsRegistry"] ='[{"Path":"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Amazon\MachineImage","Recursive":false,"ValueNames":["AMIName"]}]'
$params["files"] = '[{"Path":"C:\Program Files","Pattern":["*.exe"],"Recursive":true}, {"Path":"C:\ProgramData","Pattern":["*.log"],"Recursive":true}]'
New-SSMAssociation -AssociationName new-in-mum -Name AWS-GatherSoftwareInventory -Target @{Key="instanceids";Values="*"} -Parameter $params -region ap-south-1 -ScheduleExpression "rate(720 minutes)"

Name : AWS-GatherSoftwareInventory
InstanceId :
Date : 6/9/2019 8:57:56 AM
Status.Name :
Status.Date :
Status.Message :
Status.AdditionalInfo :
This example creates an association with all instances in the region, with AWS-GatherSoftwareInventory. It also provides custom files and registry locations in the parameters to collect

Supported Version

AWS Tools for PowerShell: 2.x.y.z