Amazon Web Services Systems Manager is the operations hub for your Amazon Web Services applications and resources and a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments that enables safe and secure operations at scale.

This reference is intended to be used with the Amazon Web Services Systems Manager User Guide. To get started, see Setting up Amazon Web Services Systems Manager.

Related resources

For information about each of the tools that comprise Systems Manager, see Using Systems Manager tools in the Amazon Web Services Systems Manager User Guide.
For details about predefined runbooks for Automation, a tool in Amazon Web Services Systems Manager, see the Systems Manager Automation Runbook Reference .
For information about AppConfig, a tool in Systems Manager, see the AppConfig User Guide and the AppConfig API Reference .
For information about Incident Manager, a tool in Systems Manager, see the Systems Manager Incident Manager User Guide and the Systems Manager Incident Manager API Reference .

Installing

To install this package, use the CLI of your favorite package manager:

npm install @aws-sdk/client-ssm
yarn add @aws-sdk/client-ssm
pnpm add @aws-sdk/client-ssm

Getting Started

Import

The AWS SDK is modulized by clients and commands. To send a request, you only need to import the SSMClient and the commands you need, for example ListNodesCommand:

// ES5 example
const { SSMClient, ListNodesCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-ssm");

// ES6+ example
import { SSMClient, ListNodesCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-ssm";

Usage

To send a request:

Instantiate a client with configuration (e.g. credentials, region).
- See docs/CLIENTS for configuration details.
- See @aws-sdk/config for additional options.
Instantiate a command with input parameters.
Call the send operation on the client, providing the command object as input.

const client = new SSMClient({ region: "REGION" });

const params = { /** input parameters */ };
const command = new ListNodesCommand(params);

Async/await

We recommend using the await operator to wait for the promise returned by send operation as follows:

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
} finally {
  // finally.
}

Promises

You can also use Promise chaining.

client
  .send(command)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  })
  .finally(() => {
    // finally.
  });

Aggregated client

The aggregated client class is exported from the same package, but without the "Client" suffix.

SSM extends SSMClient and additionally supports all operations, waiters, and paginators as methods. This style may be familiar to you from the AWS SDK for JavaScript v2.

If you are bundling the AWS SDK, we recommend using only the bare-bones client (SSMClient). More details are in the blog post on modular packages in AWS SDK for JavaScript.

import { SSM } from "@aws-sdk/client-ssm";

const client = new SSM({ region: "REGION" });

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.listNodes(params);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
}

// Promises.
client
  .listNodes(params)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  });

// callbacks (not recommended).
client.listNodes(params, (err, data) => {
  // process err and data.
});

Troubleshooting

When the service returns an exception, the error will include the exception information, as well as response metadata (e.g. request id).

try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  const { requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId } = error.$metadata;
  console.log({ requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId });
  /**
   * The keys within exceptions are also parsed.
   * You can access them by specifying exception names:
   * if (error.name === 'SomeServiceException') {
   *     const value = error.specialKeyInException;
   * }
   */
}

Getting Help

Please use these community resources for getting help. We use GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests, but have limited bandwidth to address them.

Visit the Developer Guide or API Reference.
Check out the blog posts tagged with aws-sdk-js on AWS Developer Blog.
Ask a question on StackOverflow and tag it with aws-sdk-js.
Join the AWS JavaScript community on gitter.
If it turns out that you may have found a bug, please open an issue.

To test your universal JavaScript code in Node.js, browser and react-native environments, visit our code samples repo.

Contributing

This client code is generated automatically. Any modifications will be overwritten the next time the @aws-sdk/client-ssm package is updated. To contribute to client you can check our generate clients scripts.

License

This SDK is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see LICENSE for more information.

Client Commands (Operations List)

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