I want to make sure the instance has passed the two status checks(System/Instance reachability check) using command line.
When I run this
ec2-describe-instance-status
ec2-describe-instance-status XX($InstanceID)
it would show running instances like
INSTANCE $InstanceID $REGION running 16
But when I tried adding a filter to make sure the instance passed the status check
ec2-describe-instance-status XX($InstanceID) --filter instance-status.reachability=passed
ec2-describe-instance-status XX($InstanceID) --filter "instance-status.reachability=passed"
ec2-describe-instance-status --filter instance-status.reachability=passed
nothing ever returned.
I've double-checked the instances are running fine and actually passed the 2 status checks, but why nothing is returned after applying the filters?
Update:
In response to Rico, I tried the -v
option
ec2-describe-instance-status -v
returns one item in the instanceStatusSet, with the fields
<item>
<instanceId>i-XXX</instanceId>
<availabilityZone>us-east-1d</availabilityZone>
<instanceState>
<code>16</code>
<name>running</name>
</instanceState>
</item>
while
ec2-describe-instance-status --filter instance-status.reachability=passed -v
ec2-describe-instance-status --filter "instance-status.reachability=passed" -v
both return an empty instanceStatusSet...