Use GenerateCredentialReport with an Amazon SDK or CLI - Amazon Identity and Access Management
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Use GenerateCredentialReport with an Amazon SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use GenerateCredentialReport.

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CLI
Amazon CLI

To generate a credential report

The following example attempts to generate a credential report for the Amazon account.

aws iam generate-credential-report

Output:

{
    "State":  "STARTED",
    "Description": "No report exists. Starting a new report generation task"
}

For more information, see Getting credential reports for your Amazon account in the Amazon IAM User Guide.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell V4

Example 1: This example requests generation of a new report, which can be done every four hours. If the last report is still recent the State field reads COMPLETE. Use Get-IAMCredentialReport to view the completed report.

Request-IAMCredentialReport

Output:

Description                                                    State
-----------                                                    -----
No report exists. Starting a new report generation task        STARTED
Tools for PowerShell V5

Example 1: This example requests generation of a new report, which can be done every four hours. If the last report is still recent the State field reads COMPLETE. Use Get-IAMCredentialReport to view the completed report.

Request-IAMCredentialReport

Output:

Description                                                    State
-----------                                                    -----
No report exists. Starting a new report generation task        STARTED
Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository. 

def generate_credential_report():
    """
    Starts generation of a credentials report about the current account. After
    calling this function to generate the report, call get_credential_report
    to get the latest report. A new report can be generated a minimum of four hours
    after the last one was generated.
    """
    try:
        response = iam.meta.client.generate_credential_report()
        logger.info(
            "Generating credentials report for your account. " "Current state is %s.",
            response["State"],
        )
    except ClientError:
        logger.exception("Couldn't generate a credentials report for your account.")
        raise
    else:
        return response
SAP ABAP
SDK for SAP ABAP
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository. 

    TRY.
        oo_result = lo_iam->generatecredentialreport( ).
        MESSAGE 'Credential report generation started.' TYPE 'I'.
      CATCH /aws1/cx_iamlimitexceededex.
        MESSAGE 'Report generation limit exceeded.' TYPE 'E'.
      CATCH /aws1/cx_iamservicefailureex.
        MESSAGE 'Service failure when generating credential report.' TYPE 'E'.
    ENDTRY.

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