[ aws . directconnect ]

describe-loa

Description

Gets the LOA-CFA for a connection, interconnect, or link aggregation group (LAG).

The Letter of Authorization - Connecting Facility Assignment (LOA-CFA) is a document that is used when establishing your cross connect to Amazon Web Services at the colocation facility. For more information, see Requesting Cross Connects at Direct Connect Locations in the Direct Connect User Guide .

See also: AWS API Documentation

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Synopsis

  describe-loa
--connection-id <value>
[--provider-name <value>]
[--loa-content-type <value>]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options

--connection-id (string)

The ID of a connection, LAG, or interconnect.

--provider-name (string)

The name of the service provider who establishes connectivity on your behalf. If you specify this parameter, the LOA-CFA lists the provider name alongside your company name as the requester of the cross connect.

--loa-content-type (string)

The standard media type for the LOA-CFA document. The only supported value is application/pdf.

Possible values:

• application/pdf

--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. The generated JSON skeleton is not stable between versions of the AWS CLI and there are no backwards compatibility guarantees in the JSON skeleton generated.

See ‘aws help’ for descriptions of global parameters.

Examples

Note

To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.

Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal’s quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .

To describe your LOA-CFA for a connection using Linux or Mac OS X

The following example describes your LOA-CFA for connection dxcon-fh6ayh1d. The contents of the LOA-CFA are base64-encoded. This command uses the --output and --query parameters to control the output and extract the contents of the loaContent structure. The final part of the command decodes the content using the base64 utility, and sends the output to a PDF file.

aws directconnect describe-loa --connection-id dxcon-fh6ayh1d --output text --query loa.loaContent|base64 --decode > myLoaCfa.pdf

To describe your LOA-CFA for a connection using Windows

The previous example requires the use of the base64 utility to decode the output. On a Windows computer, you can use certutil instead. In the following example, the first command describes your LOA-CFA for connection dxcon-fh6ayh1d and uses the --output and --query parameters to control the output and extract the contents of the loaContent structure to a file called myLoaCfa.base64. The second command uses the certutil utility to decode the file and send the output to a PDF file.

aws directconnect describe-loa --connection-id dxcon-fh6ayh1d --output text --query loa.loaContent > myLoaCfa.base64

certutil -decode myLoaCfa.base64 myLoaCfa.pdf

For more information about controlling AWS CLI output, see Controlling Command Output from the AWS Command Line Interface in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

Output

loaContent -> (blob)

The binary contents of the LOA-CFA document.

loaContentType -> (string)

The standard media type for the LOA-CFA document. The only supported value is application/pdf.