Use GetConsoleOutput
with a CLI
The following code examples show how to use GetConsoleOutput
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- CLI
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- Amazon CLI
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Example 1: To get the console output
The following
get-console-output
example gets the console output for the specified Linux instance.aws ec2 get-console-output \ --instance-id
i-1234567890abcdef0
Output:
{ "InstanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0", "Timestamp": "2013-07-25T21:23:53.000Z", "Output": "..." }
For more information, see Instance console output
in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. Example 2: To get the latest console output
The following
get-console-output
example gets the latest console output for the specified Linux instance.aws ec2 get-console-output \ --instance-id
i-1234567890abcdef0
\ --latest \ --outputtext
Output:
i-1234567890abcdef0 [ 0.000000] Command line: root=LABEL=/ console=tty1 console=ttyS0 selinux=0 nvme_core.io_timeout=4294967295 [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x001: 'x87 floating point registers' [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x002: 'SSE registers' [ 0.000000] x86/fpu: Supporting XSAVE feature 0x004: 'AVX registers' ... Cloud-init v. 0.7.6 finished at Wed, 09 May 2018 19:01:13 +0000. Datasource DataSourceEc2. Up 21.50 seconds Amazon Linux AMI release 2018.03 Kernel 4.14.26-46.32.amzn1.x
For more information, see Instance console output
in the Amazon EC2 User Guide. -
For API details, see GetConsoleOutput
in Amazon CLI Command Reference.
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- PowerShell
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- Tools for PowerShell
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Example 1: This example gets the console output for the specified Linux instance. The console output is encoded.
Get-EC2ConsoleOutput -InstanceId i-0e19abcd47c123456
Output:
InstanceId Output ---------- ------ i-0e194d3c47c123637 WyAgICAwLjAwMDAwMF0gQ29tbW...bGU9dHR5UzAgc2Vs
Example 2: This example stores the encoded console output in a variable and then decodes it.
$Output_encoded = (Get-EC2ConsoleOutput -InstanceId i-0e19abcd47c123456).Output [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($Output_encoded))
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For API details, see GetConsoleOutput
in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.
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For a complete list of Amazon SDK developer guides and code examples, see Create Amazon EC2 resources using an Amazon SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.