Use GetInventory with an Amazon SDK or CLI - Amazon Systems Manager
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Use GetInventory with an Amazon SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use GetInventory.

CLI
Amazon CLI

To view your inventory

This example gets the custom metadata for your inventory.

Command:

aws ssm get-inventory

Output:

{
  "Entities": [
      {
          "Data": {
              "AWS:InstanceInformation": {
                  "Content": [
                      {
                          "ComputerName": "ip-172-31-44-222.us-west-2.compute.internal",
                          "InstanceId": "i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f",
                          "IpAddress": "172.31.44.222",
                          "AgentType": "amazon-ssm-agent",
                          "ResourceType": "EC2Instance",
                          "AgentVersion": "2.0.672.0",
                          "PlatformVersion": "2016.09",
                          "PlatformName": "Amazon Linux AMI",
                          "PlatformType": "Linux"
                      }
                  ],
                  "TypeName": "AWS:InstanceInformation",
                  "SchemaVersion": "1.0",
                  "CaptureTime": "2017-02-20T18:03:58Z"
              }
          },
          "Id": "i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f"
      }
  ]
}

  • For API details, see GetInventory in Amazon CLI Command Reference.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example gets the custom metadata for your inventory.

Get-SSMInventory

Output:

Data                                                                                  Id
----                                                                                  --
{[AWS:InstanceInformation, Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.InventoryResultItem]} i-0cb2b964d3e14fd9f

  • For API details, see GetInventory in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

For a complete list of Amazon SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using Systems Manager with an Amazon SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.