[ aws . directconnect ]

start-bgp-failover-test

Description

Starts the virtual interface failover test that verifies your configuration meets your resiliency requirements by placing the BGP peering session in the DOWN state. You can then send traffic to verify that there are no outages.

You can run the test on public, private, transit, and hosted virtual interfaces.

You can use ListVirtualInterfaceTestHistory to view the virtual interface test history.

If you need to stop the test before the test interval completes, use StopBgpFailoverTest .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  start-bgp-failover-test
--virtual-interface-id <value>
[--bgp-peers <value>]
[--test-duration-in-minutes <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--virtual-interface-id (string)

The ID of the virtual interface you want to test.

--bgp-peers (list)

The BGP peers to place in the DOWN state.

(string)

Syntax:

"string" "string" ...

--test-duration-in-minutes (integer)

The time in minutes that the virtual interface failover test will last.

Maximum value: 180 minutes (3 hours).

Default: 180 minutes (3 hours).

--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.

--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.

Output

virtualInterfaceTest -> (structure)

Information about the virtual interface failover test.

testId -> (string)

The ID of the virtual interface failover test.

virtualInterfaceId -> (string)

The ID of the tested virtual interface.

bgpPeers -> (list)

The BGP peers that were put in the DOWN state as part of the virtual interface failover test.

(string)

status -> (string)

The status of the virtual interface failover test.

ownerAccount -> (string)

The owner ID of the tested virtual interface.

testDurationInMinutes -> (integer)

The time that the virtual interface failover test ran in minutes.

startTime -> (timestamp)

The time that the virtual interface moves to the DOWN state.

endTime -> (timestamp)

The time that the virtual interface moves out of the DOWN state.