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Elastic Desktop Service:DescribeCens

Last Updated:Nov 14, 2025

Queries the details of all Cloud Enterprise Network (CEN) instances within an Alibaba Cloud account.

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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
ecd:DescribeCensget
*All Resources
*
    none
none

Request parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescriptionExample
RegionIdstringYes

The region ID. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

cn-hangzhou
PageSizeintegerNo

The number of entries per page.
Default value: 50.

50
PageNumberintegerNo

The page number.
Default value: 1.

1

Response parameters

ParameterTypeDescriptionExample
object

The response parameters.

PageSizeinteger

The number of entries per page.

50
RequestIdstring

The request ID.

1CBAFFAB-B697-4049-A9B1-67E1FC5F****
PageNumberinteger

The page number.

1
TotalCountinteger

The total number of CEN instances returned.

1
Censarray<object>

Details of the CEN instances.

Cenobject
Statusstring

The status of the CEN instance.

Valid values:

  • Creating

  • Active

  • Deleting

Active
CreationTimestring

The time when the CEN instance was created.

2021-06-16T08:46Z
Ipv6Levelstring

The IPv6 level.

Note IPv6 is not supported.

Valid value:

  • DISABLED

DISABLED
Descriptionstring

The description of the CEN instance.

test
CenIdstring

The ID of the CEN instance.

cen-3gwy16dojz1m65****
ProtectionLevelstring

The tolerated level of CIDR block conflict.

Valid value:

  • REDUCED: CIDR block conflicts are allowed, but the conflicting CIDR blocks cannot be identical.
REDUCED
Namestring

The name of the CEN instance.

testCen
Tagsarray<object>

The tags of the CEN instance.

Tagobject
Keystring

The key of the tag.

testKey
Valuestring

The value of the tag.

testValue
PackageIdsarray<object>

The bandwidth plans that are bound to the CEN instance.

PackageIdobject
PackageIdstring

The ID of the bandwidth plan that is bound to the CEN instance.

cenbwp-4c2zaavbvh5f42****

Examples

Sample success responses

JSONformat

{
  "PageSize": 50,
  "RequestId": "1CBAFFAB-B697-4049-A9B1-67E1FC5F****",
  "PageNumber": 1,
  "TotalCount": 1,
  "Cens": [
    {
      "Status": "Active",
      "CreationTime": "2021-06-16T08:46Z",
      "Ipv6Level": "DISABLED",
      "Description": "test",
      "CenId": "cen-3gwy16dojz1m65****",
      "ProtectionLevel": "REDUCED",
      "Name": "testCen",
      "Tags": [
        {
          "Key": "testKey",
          "Value": "testValue"
        }
      ],
      "PackageIds": [
        {
          "PackageId": "cenbwp-4c2zaavbvh5f42****"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Error codes

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

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