describe-stale-security-groups¶

Description¶

[VPC only] Describes the stale security group rules for security groups in a specified VPC. Rules are stale when they reference a deleted security group in a peer VPC, or a security group in a peer VPC for which the VPC peering connection has been deleted.

Synopsis¶

  describe-stale-security-groups
[--dry-run | --no-dry-run]
--vpc-id <value>
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--dry-run | --no-dry-run (boolean)

Checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, the error response is DryRunOperation . Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation .

--vpc-id (string)

The ID of the VPC.

--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton. If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with --cli-input-yaml.

--starting-token (string)

A token to specify where to start paginating. This is the NextToken from a previously truncated response.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--page-size (integer)

The size of each page to get in the AWS service call. This does not affect the number of items returned in the command’s output. Setting a smaller page size results in more calls to the AWS service, retrieving fewer items in each call. This can help prevent the AWS service calls from timing out.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--max-items (integer)

The total number of items to return in the command’s output. If the total number of items available is more than the value specified, a NextToken is provided in the command’s output. To resume pagination, provide the NextToken value in the starting-token argument of a subsequent command. Do not use the NextToken response element directly outside of the AWS CLI.

For usage examples, see Pagination in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide .

--generate-cli-skeleton (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json. Similarly, if provided yaml-input it will print a sample input YAML that can be used with --cli-input-yaml. If provided with the value output, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples¶

To describe stale security groups

This example describes stale security group rules for vpc-11223344. The response shows that sg-5fa68d3a in your account has a stale ingress SSH rule that references sg-279ab042 in the peer VPC, and that sg-fe6fba9a in your account has a stale egress SSH rule that references sg-ef6fba8b in the peer VPC.

Command:

aws ec2 describe-stale-security-groups --vpc-id vpc-11223344

Output:

{
  "StaleSecurityGroupSet": [
      {
          "VpcId": "vpc-11223344",
          "StaleIpPermissionsEgress": [
              {
                  "ToPort": 22,
                  "FromPort": 22,
                  "UserIdGroupPairs": [
                      {
                          "VpcId": "vpc-7a20e51f",
                          "GroupId": "sg-ef6fba8b",
                          "VpcPeeringConnectionId": "pcx-b04deed9",
                          "PeeringStatus": "active"
                      }
                  ],
                  "IpProtocol": "tcp"
              }
          ],
          "GroupName": "MySG1",
          "StaleIpPermissions": [],
          "GroupId": "sg-fe6fba9a",
          "Description": MySG1"
      },
      {
          "VpcId": "vpc-11223344",
          "StaleIpPermissionsEgress": [],
          "GroupName": "MySG2",
          "StaleIpPermissions": [
              {
                  "ToPort": 22,
                  "FromPort": 22,
                  "UserIdGroupPairs": [
                      {
                          "VpcId": "vpc-7a20e51f",
                          "GroupId": "sg-279ab042",
                          "Description": "Access from pcx-b04deed9",
                          "VpcPeeringConnectionId": "pcx-b04deed9",
                          "PeeringStatus": "active"
                      }
                  ],
                  "IpProtocol": "tcp"
              }
          ],
          "GroupId": "sg-5fa68d3a",
          "Description": "MySG2"
      }
  ]
}

Output¶

NextToken -> (string)

The token to use when requesting the next set of items. If there are no additional items to return, the string is empty.

StaleSecurityGroupSet -> (list)

Information about the stale security groups.

(structure)

Describes a stale security group (a security group that contains stale rules).

Description -> (string)

The description of the security group.

GroupId -> (string)

The ID of the security group.

GroupName -> (string)

The name of the security group.

StaleIpPermissions -> (list)

Information about the stale inbound rules in the security group.

(structure)

Describes a stale rule in a security group.

FromPort -> (integer)

The start of the port range for the TCP and UDP protocols, or an ICMP type number. A value of -1 indicates all ICMP types.

IpProtocol -> (string)

The IP protocol name (for tcp , udp , and icmp ) or number (see Protocol Numbers) .

IpRanges -> (list)

The IP ranges. Not applicable for stale security group rules.

(string)

PrefixListIds -> (list)

The prefix list IDs. Not applicable for stale security group rules.

(string)

ToPort -> (integer)

The end of the port range for the TCP and UDP protocols, or an ICMP type number. A value of -1 indicates all ICMP types.

UserIdGroupPairs -> (list)

The security group pairs. Returns the ID of the referenced security group and VPC, and the ID and status of the VPC peering connection.

(structure)

Describes a security group and AWS account ID pair.

Description -> (string)

A description for the security group rule that references this user ID group pair.

Constraints: Up to 255 characters in length. Allowed characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, spaces, and ._-:/()#,@[]+=;{}!$*

GroupId -> (string)

The ID of the security group.

GroupName -> (string)

The name of the security group. In a request, use this parameter for a security group in EC2-Classic or a default VPC only. For a security group in a nondefault VPC, use the security group ID.

For a referenced security group in another VPC, this value is not returned if the referenced security group is deleted.

PeeringStatus -> (string)

The status of a VPC peering connection, if applicable.

UserId -> (string)

The ID of an AWS account.

For a referenced security group in another VPC, the account ID of the referenced security group is returned in the response. If the referenced security group is deleted, this value is not returned.

[EC2-Classic] Required when adding or removing rules that reference a security group in another AWS account.

VpcId -> (string)

The ID of the VPC for the referenced security group, if applicable.

VpcPeeringConnectionId -> (string)

The ID of the VPC peering connection, if applicable.

StaleIpPermissionsEgress -> (list)

Information about the stale outbound rules in the security group.

(structure)

Describes a stale rule in a security group.

FromPort -> (integer)

The start of the port range for the TCP and UDP protocols, or an ICMP type number. A value of -1 indicates all ICMP types.

IpProtocol -> (string)

The IP protocol name (for tcp , udp , and icmp ) or number (see Protocol Numbers) .

IpRanges -> (list)

The IP ranges. Not applicable for stale security group rules.

(string)

PrefixListIds -> (list)

The prefix list IDs. Not applicable for stale security group rules.

(string)

ToPort -> (integer)

The end of the port range for the TCP and UDP protocols, or an ICMP type number. A value of -1 indicates all ICMP types.

UserIdGroupPairs -> (list)

The security group pairs. Returns the ID of the referenced security group and VPC, and the ID and status of the VPC peering connection.

(structure)

Describes a security group and AWS account ID pair.

Description -> (string)

A description for the security group rule that references this user ID group pair.

Constraints: Up to 255 characters in length. Allowed characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, spaces, and ._-:/()#,@[]+=;{}!$*

GroupId -> (string)

The ID of the security group.

GroupName -> (string)

The name of the security group. In a request, use this parameter for a security group in EC2-Classic or a default VPC only. For a security group in a nondefault VPC, use the security group ID.

For a referenced security group in another VPC, this value is not returned if the referenced security group is deleted.

PeeringStatus -> (string)

The status of a VPC peering connection, if applicable.

UserId -> (string)

The ID of an AWS account.

For a referenced security group in another VPC, the account ID of the referenced security group is returned in the response. If the referenced security group is deleted, this value is not returned.

[EC2-Classic] Required when adding or removing rules that reference a security group in another AWS account.

VpcId -> (string)

The ID of the VPC for the referenced security group, if applicable.

VpcPeeringConnectionId -> (string)

The ID of the VPC peering connection, if applicable.

VpcId -> (string)

The ID of the VPC for the security group.

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