CreateComputer - Amazon Directory Service
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CreateComputer

Creates an Active Directory computer object in the specified directory.

Request Syntax

{ "ComputerAttributes": [ { "Name": "string", "Value": "string" } ], "ComputerName": "string", "DirectoryId": "string", "OrganizationalUnitDistinguishedName": "string", "Password": "string" }

Request Parameters

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ComputerAttributes

An array of Attribute objects that contain any LDAP attributes to apply to the computer account.

Type: Array of Attribute objects

Required: No

ComputerName

The name of the computer account.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 15.

Required: Yes

DirectoryId

The identifier of the directory in which to create the computer account.

Type: String

Pattern: ^d-[0-9a-f]{10}$

Required: Yes

OrganizationalUnitDistinguishedName

The fully-qualified distinguished name of the organizational unit to place the computer account in.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 2000.

Required: No

Password

A one-time password that is used to join the computer to the directory. You should generate a random, strong password to use for this parameter.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 8. Maximum length of 64.

Pattern: [\u0020-\u00FF]+

Required: Yes

Response Syntax

{ "Computer": { "ComputerAttributes": [ { "Name": "string", "Value": "string" } ], "ComputerId": "string", "ComputerName": "string" } }

Response Elements

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

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Computer

A Computer object that represents the computer account.

Type: Computer object

Errors

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

AuthenticationFailedException

An authentication error occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ClientException

A client exception has occurred.

HTTP Status Code: 400

DirectoryUnavailableException

The specified directory is unavailable.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EntityAlreadyExistsException

The specified entity already exists.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EntityDoesNotExistException

The specified entity could not be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterException

One or more parameters are not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

An exception has occurred in Amazon Directory Service.

HTTP Status Code: 500

UnsupportedOperationException

The operation is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

The following examples are formatted for legibility.

Example Request

This example illustrates one usage of CreateComputer.

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: ds.us-west-2.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 245 X-Amz-Target: DirectoryService_20150416.CreateComputer X-Amz-Date: 20161213T163452Z User-Agent: aws-cli/1.11.24 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 botocore/1.4.81 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAI7E3BYXS3example/20161213/us-west-2/ds/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=5fa12f147bce3620568504361b860de07868da3b1c27d5f0bde6e5ffa51bf6ef { "DirectoryId":"d-926example", "ComputerName":"labcomputer", "Password":"Str0ngP@ssw0rd", "ComputerAttributes":[ { "Name":"ip", "Value":"192.168.101.100" } ], "OrganizationalUnitDistinguishedName":"OU=Computers,OU=example,DC=corp,DC=example,DC=com" }

Example Response

This example illustrates one usage of CreateComputer.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amzn-RequestId: afcea813-c196-11e6-a6a8-5110402a26c3 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 286 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:46:03 GMT { "Computer":{ "ComputerAttributes":[ { "Name":"DistinguishedName", "Value":"CN=labcomputer,OU=Computers,OU=example,DC=corp,DC=example,DC=com" }, { "Name":"WindowsSamName", "Value":"labcomputer$" } ], "ComputerId":"S-1-5-21-1932691875-1648176379-1176097576-1124", "ComputerName":"labcomputer" } }

See Also

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