# open-servers
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Opens one or more Amazon DCV servers. Before you can create sessions on a Amazon DCV server, you must change the server's state to open. After the Amazon DCV server is open, you can create Amazon DCV sessions on the server.

**Topics**
+ [Synopsis](#synopsis)
+ [Options](#options)
+ [Example](#example)

## Synopsis
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```
open-servers
--server-ids {{<value>}}
```

## Options
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**`--server-ids`**  
The comma-separated list of IDs of the Amazon DCV servers to open.  
Type: String  
Required: Yes

## Example
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```
./dcvsm open-servers --server-ids "server123,server456"
```