Amazon EC2 Job parameters

The following table describes the parameters for an Amazon EC2:

NOTE: Take into consideration that some parameters might not appear in your properties pane, if they were not specified in the User View you applied. Use Control-M rules if the parameter rules were not specified by the Site Standard.

Parameter

Description

Connection Profile

Defines the Amazon EC2 Connection Profile. Control-M rule: 1-30 characters (capital letters only)

Operation

Determines whether the Job definition will create, start, stop, reboot, or terminate a VM instance

AMI ID

Defines the ID of the Amazon Machine Image from Amazon EC2

Number of Copies

Determines the number of VM instances that are created. Supports only numbers greater or equal to 1.

Host Group

Defines the name of the host group that you want this VM instance to join

Availability Zone

Determines the geographical location of the VM instance

Instance Type

Determines the hardware specifications for the VM instance

Launch Instances into your Virtual Private Cloud checkbox

Determines whether to extend your existing security and management policies to your VPC so that the EC2 objects run as if they were in your own infrastructure

Subnet ID

Determines a subset of IP addresses within your VPC

Key Pair

Determines the name of the key that authenticates the VM instance

Security Group

Determines the security encryption format for the VM instance

Kernal ID

Defines the operating system kernal Id

RAM Disk ID

Defines the ID of the RAM Disk

Placement Group

Defines the placement group

Monitoring

Determines whether to enable monitoring of CPU, Disk, and Network usage in Amazon EC2

User Data

Defines free text data about the VM instance

IP Address

Defines the IP address for your VPC

Tags

Defines the names and values to the VM instances that help you organize, browse, and search your resources. For example, Key = Name, Value = Web server

Instance ID

Determines the name of the instance ID that is used to start, stop, reboot, or terminate the VM instance

Parent Topic

Job types