Terminating, starting, or stopping an EC2 instance

To add the Terminate, start, or stop an instance in EC2 action to a policy

1. In the BMC Helix Intelligent Automation console, click Policies and the click Create Policy.
2. In the Policy Information section, enter a unique name and an optional description for the policy. 
3. Select Manual or Automatic to execute the policy manually or automatically.
4. In the Trigger section, click Browse and to select an event do one of the following steps:
   • From the Select Event Type tab, select an existing event type, and click Done.

   • On the Paste Event JSON tab, enter event in the JSON format, and click Done.

     Sample event for stopping an EC2 intance

     {
     "event_type": "aws_ec2_stop",
     "region_code": "us-west-2",
     "resource_id": "i-02c64c42016f0ad89"
     }

5. In the Trigger Condition text box, use the expression builder to build the following conditional expression to match the trigger condition to the event:

   Sample trigger condition

   "$ ? ($.event.event_type == \"aws_ec2_stop\")"

   For more information about how to define the conditions, see the Creating-automation-policies.

6. Click Add Action and perform the following steps by using the action wizard:
   1. From the Pick an automation tool section, click the connector name.
      Only configured connectors are displayed here. The wizard takes you to the next step to select an action. 
   2. Click Select against the Terminate, start, or stop an instance in EC2 action.
      The wizard takes you to the next step to configure an action.
   3. Provide the following information: 
      1. Enter a unique action name.
         For example, Stop EC2 instance.

      2. In Request body, enter the following values:

         Field	Description
         ID	Enter one or more instance IDs that you want to stop.
         Zone	Enter the AWS zone in which you want to start, stop, or terminate this instance.
         Image	Enter the I(ami) ID to use for the instance.
         State	Select the state for the instance.
         Region	Enter the AWS region name where this instance is available.
         Ec2 Url	Enter the URL to connect to EC2.
         Group ID	Enter one or more security group IDs to use with the instance.
         Exact Count	Enter a value, in integer, to indicate the number of instances on which the action should be taken.
         Instance Ids	Enter one or more instance IDs to be used for this action. Instance IDs are used for the Absent, Running, or Stopped states.
         Instance Profile Name	Enter the name of the IAM instance profile.
         Instance Initiated Shutdown Behavior	Select whether AWS should stop or terminate an instance after shutdown. This option is ignored if using instance store.

         Note

         Based on the selected event, the event slots with the values specified in the event appear under the Parameters section on the UI. You can click any of the parameters and its value gets copied. You can paste it while defining the action in the policy. 

   4. Click Done.
      The added action appears in the Action Configuration section on the Create Automation Policies page.
7. In the Estimated Savings section, enter an approximate time (in minutes) and money (in USD) that you may save by automating this action.
   
8. Select Publish Policy and click Save to publish the policy.