Example Amazon SNS notifications for AWS Systems Manager - AWS Systems Manager
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Example Amazon SNS notifications for AWS Systems Manager

You can configure Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to send notifications about the status of commands that you send using Run Command or Maintenance Windows, which are tools in AWS Systems Manager.

Note

This guide doesn't address how to configure notifications for Run Command or Maintenance Windows. For information about configuring Run Command or Maintenance Windows to send Amazon SNS notifications about the status of commands, see Configure Amazon SNS notifications for AWS Systems Manager.

The following examples show the structure of the JSON output returned by Amazon SNS notifications when configured for Run Command or Maintenance Windows.

Sample JSON Output for Command summary messages using instance ID targeting

{
    "commandId": "a8c7e76f-15f1-4c33-9052-0123456789ab",
    "documentName": "AWS-RunPowerShellScript",
    "instanceIds": [
        "i-1234567890abcdef0",
        "i-9876543210abcdef0"
    ],
    "requestedDateTime": "2019-04-25T17:57:09.17Z",
    "expiresAfter": "2019-04-25T19:07:09.17Z",
    "outputS3BucketName": "amzn-s3-demo-bucket",
    "outputS3KeyPrefix": "runcommand",
    "status": "InProgress",
    "eventTime": "2019-04-25T17:57:09.236Z"
}

Sample JSON Output for Command summary messages using tag-based targeting

{
    "commandId": "9e92c686-ddc7-4827-b040-0123456789ab",
    "documentName": "AWS-RunPowerShellScript",
    "instanceIds": [],
    "requestedDateTime": "2019-04-25T18:01:03.888Z",
    "expiresAfter": "2019-04-25T19:11:03.888Z",
    "outputS3BucketName": "",
    "outputS3KeyPrefix": "",
    "status": "InProgress",
    "eventTime": "2019-04-25T18:01:05.825Z"
}

Sample JSON Output for Invocation messages

{
    "commandId": "ceb96b84-16aa-4540-91e3-925a9a278b8c",
    "documentName": "AWS-RunPowerShellScript",
    "instanceId": "i-1234567890abcdef0",
    "requestedDateTime": "2019-04-25T18:06:05.032Z",
    "status": "InProgress",
    "eventTime": "2019-04-25T18:06:05.099Z"
}