get-inventory-schema¶

Description¶

Return a list of inventory type names for the account, or return a list of attribute names for a specific Inventory item type.

Synopsis¶

  get-inventory-schema
[--type-name <value>]
[--aggregator | --no-aggregator]
[--sub-type | --no-sub-type]
[--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
[--starting-token <value>]
[--page-size <value>]
[--max-items <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]

Options¶

--type-name (string)

The type of inventory item to return.

--aggregator | --no-aggregator (boolean)

Returns inventory schemas that support aggregation. For example, this call returns the AWS:InstanceInformation type, because it supports aggregation based on the PlatformName , PlatformType , and PlatformVersion attributes.

--sub-type | --no-sub-type (boolean)

Returns the sub-type schema for a specified inventory type.

--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. 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 view your inventory schema

This example returns a list of inventory type names for the account.

Command:

aws ssm get-inventory-schema

Output:

{
  "Schemas": [
      {
          "TypeName": "AWS:AWSComponent",
          "Version": "1.0",
          "Attributes": [
              {
                  "Name": "Name",
                  "DataType": "STRING"
              },
              {
                  "Name": "ApplicationType",
                  "DataType": "STRING"
              },
              {
                  "Name": "Publisher",
                  "DataType": "STRING"
              },
              {
                  "Name": "Version",
                  "DataType": "STRING"
              },
              {
                  "Name": "InstalledTime",
                  "DataType": "STRING"
              },
              {
                  "Name": "Architecture",
                  "DataType": "STRING"
              },
              {
                  "Name": "URL",
                  "DataType": "STRING"
              }
          ]
      },
      ...
  ],
  "NextToken": "--token string truncated--"
}

To view the inventory schema for a specific inventory type

This example return the inventory schema for a the AWS:AWSComponent inventory type.

Command:

aws ssm get-inventory-schema --type-name "AWS:AWSComponent"

Output¶

Schemas -> (list)

Inventory schemas returned by the request.

(structure)

The inventory item schema definition. Users can use this to compose inventory query filters.

TypeName -> (string)

The name of the inventory type. Default inventory item type names start with Amazon Web Services. Custom inventory type names will start with Custom. Default inventory item types include the following: AWS:AWSComponent , AWS:Application , AWS:InstanceInformation , AWS:Network , and AWS:WindowsUpdate .

Version -> (string)

The schema version for the inventory item.

Attributes -> (list)

The schema attributes for inventory. This contains data type and attribute name.

(structure)

Attributes are the entries within the inventory item content. It contains name and value.

Name -> (string)

Name of the inventory item attribute.

DataType -> (string)

The data type of the inventory item attribute.

DisplayName -> (string)

The alias name of the inventory type. The alias name is used for display purposes.

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.

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