txaws-discover (1)

txaws-discover [--key KEY] [--secret SECRET] [--endpoint ENDPOINT]

Purpose: Invoke an EC2 API method with arbitrary parameters.

• --action ACTION [PARAMETERS, ...]

--key

The AWS access key to use when making the API request.

--secret

The AWS secret key to use when making the API request.

--endpoint

The region endpoint to make the API request against.

--action

The name of the EC2 API to invoke.

-h, --help

Show help message.

Description:

The purpose of this program is to aid discovery of the EC2 API.

It can run

any EC2 API method, with arbitrary parameters.

The response received from

• the backend cloud is printed to the screen, to show exactly what happened in response to the request. The --key, --secret, --endpoint and --action command-line arguments are required. If AWS_ENDPOINT, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID or AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY environment variables are defined the corresponding options can be omitted and the values defined in the environment variables will be used.

• Any additional parameters, beyond those defined above, will be included with the request as method parameters.

• The following examples omit the --key, --secret and --endpoint command-line arguments for brevity. They must be included unless corresponding values are available from the environment.

• Run the DescribeRegions method, without any optional parameters:

• txaws-discover --action DescribeRegions

• Run the DescribeRegions method, with an optional RegionName.0 parameter:

• txaws-discover --action DescribeRegions --RegionName.0 us-west-1