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Cloud Config:StartConfigRuleEvaluation

Last Updated:Jul 02, 2025

Re-evaluates the compliance of resources based on a rule or compliance package.

Operation description

Note After you call this operation, the compliance evaluation is performed only once. To query the compliance evaluation results returned by the specified rule or compliance package, call the ListConfigRuleEvaluationResults operation. For more information, see ListConfigRuleEvaluationResults .

In this example, the cr-bdb6626622af0012**** rule is used.

Debugging

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Authorization information

The following table shows the authorization information corresponding to the API. The authorization information can be used in the Action policy element to grant a RAM user or RAM role the permissions to call this API operation. Description:

  • Operation: the value that you can use in the Action element to specify the operation on a resource.
  • Access level: the access level of each operation. The levels are read, write, and list.
  • Resource type: the type of the resource on which you can authorize the RAM user or the RAM role to perform the operation. Take note of the following items:
    • For mandatory resource types, indicate with a prefix of * .
    • If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level, All Resources is used in the Resource type column of the operation.
  • Condition Key: the condition key that is defined by the cloud service.
  • Associated operation: other operations that the RAM user or the RAM role must have permissions to perform to complete the operation. To complete the operation, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform the associated operations.
OperationAccess levelResource typeCondition keyAssociated operation
config:StartConfigRuleEvaluationupdate
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
ConfigRuleIdstringNo

The ID of the rule.

For more information about how to obtain the ID of a rule, see ListConfigRules .

cr-bdb6626622af0012****
RevertEvaluationbooleanNo

Specifies whether to reevaluate a non-compliant resource that is ignored. Valid values:

  • true: reevaluates a non-compliant resource that is ignored.
  • false: continues to ignore a non-compliant resource.
false
CompliancePackIdstringNo

The ID of the compliance package.

For more information about how to obtain the ID of a compliance package, see ListCompliancePacks .

Note You must set one of the CompliancePackId and ConfigRuleId parameters.
cp-ac16626622af0053****

For more information about common request parameters, see Common parameters.

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object
RequestIdstring

The ID of the request.

C32EEAD7-BF64-5927-977A-AFF9342B7275
Resultboolean

Indicates whether the operation is successful. Valid values:

  • true: The operation is successful.
  • false: The operation fails.
true

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "RequestId": "C32EEAD7-BF64-5927-977A-AFF9342B7275",
  "Result": true
}

Error codes

HTTP status codeError codeError messageDescription
400ConfigRuleNotExistsThe ConfigRule does not exist.The rule does not exist.
400NoPermissionYou are not authorized to perform this operation.You are not authorized to perform this operation.
404AccountNotExistedYour account does not exist.-
503ServiceUnavailableThe request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the server.

For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.