| Euca2ools Guide / Auto Scaling-Compatible Commands | |
Manually terminate an instance in an auto scaling group.
euscale-terminate-instance-in-auto-scaling-group (-d | -D)
[--show-long]
[--show-empty-fields]
[-U URL]
[--region USER@REGION]
[-I KEY_ID] [-S KEY]
[--security-token TOKEN]
[--debug] [--debugger]
[--version] [-h]
INSTANCE
| Option | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| InstanceID | The identifier of the instance to terminate. | Yes |
| -d, --decrement-desired-capacity | Also reduce the desired capacity of the associated auto scaling group by one. | No |
| -D, --no-decrement-desired-capacity | Do not reduce the desired capacity of the associated auto scaling group. Auto scaling can launch a new instance to replace the instance terminated with this command. | No |
| --show-long | Show extra information about the instance being terminated. | No |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| --show-empty-fields | Show empty fields using (nil) as a placeholder to indicate that this data was not requested. Empty fields are not shown by default. |
| --region value | Specify region value as the cloud region to use. You can set this by using the environment variable AWS_DEFAULT_REGION. |
| -U,--url value | Overrides the URL for the service call with the value entered. You can set this by using the environment variable AWS_AUTOSCALING_URL. |
| -I, --access-key-id value | User's access key ID |
| -S, --secret-key value | User's AWS secret Key to use. |
| --debug | Prints what the command sends to the server and what it receives from the server. Use when you're trying to debug Euca2ools. |
| --debugger | Enable interactive debugger on error. |
| --version | Display the version of this tool. |
| -h,--help | Display the manual page for the command. |
The follow example terminates an instance without decrementing the auto scaling group's capacity, showing extra information about the terminated instance.
euscale-terminate-instance-in-auto-scaling-group i-ABC53ED7 -D --show-long
The following shows sample output for this command.
INSTANCE 194ea242-f7ea-4629-9f1e-a7ba46d435f3 InProgress At 2013-05-03T07:58:59Z instance was taken out of service in response to a user request.. 50 Terminating EC2 instance: i-ABC53ED7 2013-05-03T07:58:59.662Z