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Wade's avatar
Wade
9 years ago

Add concept of "stopped" devices

We have an internal app that builds servers in AWS. It also controls the scheduling of downtime and is used by users to bring hosts down and up when needed in lieu of them having to do this in the ...
Sarah_Terry's avatar
Sarah_Terry
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9 years ago

Are your EC2 instances monitored in LM as cloud devices (added via the Add AWS Account) or as regular devices (added via the normal add a device wizard)?  For EC2 instances monitored as cloud devices via our AWS Monitoring, we display the instance state as a property on the info tab - system.aws.stateName.  When an instance is stopped in AWS, you should see system.aws.stateName = stopped on the Info tab in LM.