NAME

VM::EC2::ELB:InstanceState - Object describing the state of an instance attached to a load balancer. It is the result of a DescribeInstanceHealth API call.

SYNOPSIS

use VM::EC2;

my $ec2          = VM::EC2->new(...);
my $lb           = $ec2->describe_load_balancers('my-lb');
my @instance_ids = map { $_->InstanceId } $lb->Instances();
my @states       = $lb->describe_instance_health(-instances => \@instance_ids);
my @down_ids     = map { $_->InstanceId } grep { $_->State eq 'OutOfService' } @states;

DESCRIPTION

This object is used to describe the parameters returned by a DescribeInstanceHealth API call.

METHODS

The following object methods are supported:

InstanceId   -- The Instance ID of the instance attached to the load balancer
State        -- Specifies the current status of the instance
ReasonCode   -- Provides information about the cause of OutOfService instances.
                Specifically, it indicates whether the cause is Elastic Load Balancing 
                or the instance behind the load balancer
Description  -- Description of why the instance is in the current state

The following convenience methods are supported:

instance     -- Provides an L<VM::EC2::Instance> object

STRING OVERLOADING

When used in a string context, this object will interpolate the instance state.

SEE ALSO

VM::EC2 VM::EC2::Generic VM::EC2::ELB

AUTHOR

Lance Kinley <lkinley@loyaltymethods.com>.

Copyright (c) 2012 Loyalty Methods, Inc.

This package and its accompanying libraries is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GPL (either version 1, or at your option, any later version) or the Artistic License 2.0. Refer to LICENSE for the full license text. In addition, please see DISCLAIMER.txt for disclaimers of warranty.