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CloudMonitor:InstallMonitoringAgent

Last Updated:Jul 26, 2024

Operation description

Prerequisites

The Cloud Assistant client is installed on an ECS instance. For more information about how to install the Cloud Assistant client, see Overview .

Debugging

OpenAPI Explorer automatically calculates the signature value. For your convenience, we recommend that you call this operation in OpenAPI Explorer.

Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
cms:InstallMonitoringAgentcreate
  • All Resources
    *
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
ForcebooleanNo

Specifies whether to install the CloudMonitor agent. Valid values:

  • true (default value): yes
  • false: no
true
InstanceIdsarrayNo
stringNo

The IDs of the ECS instances.

Valid values of N: 1 to 10.

Note You must specify either the InstallCommand or the InstanceIds parameter.
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InstallCommandstringNo

Specifies whether to install the CloudMonitor agent on all ECS instances that belong to the current Alibaba Cloud account. Valid values:

  • onlyInstallNotHasAgent: installs the latest version of the CloudMonitor agent only on ECS instances on which the agent is not installed.
  • onlyUpgradeAgent: upgrades the CloudMonitor agent to the latest version only for ECS instances on which an earlier version of the agent is installed.
  • installAndUpgrade: installs the latest version of the CloudMonitor agent on ECS instances on which the agent is not installed, and upgrades the CloudMonitor agent to the latest version for ECS instances on which an earlier version of the agent is installed.
Note If you set the InstallCommand parameter, the InstanceIds parameter does not take effect.
onlyInstallNotHasAgent

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
Codestring

The HTTP status code.

Note The status code 200 indicates that the call was successful.
200
Messagestring

The error message.

The specified resource is not found.
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

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Successboolean

Indicates whether the call was successful. Valid values:

  • true: The call was successful.
  • false: The call failed.
true

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "Code": "200",
  "Message": "The specified resource is not found.",
  "RequestId": "0BDAF8A8-04DC-5F0C-90E4-724D42C41945",
  "Success": true
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
400ParameterInvalidIllegal parameters.-
403AccessForbiddenUser not authorized to operate on the specified resource.-
404ResourceNotFoundThe specified resource is not found.The specified resource is not found.
500InternalErrorThe request processing has failed due to some unknown error.-

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.

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