Queries the security groups whose rules reference security groups as authorization objects.
Operation description
- If you cannot delete a security group by calling the DeleteSecurityGroup operation, call the DescribeSecurityGroupReferences operation to check whether the security group is referenced by the rules of other security groups. If the security group is referenced by the rules of other security groups, you must call the RevokeSecurityGroup and RevokeSecurityGroupEgress operations to remove the references before you can delete the security group.
Debugging
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:
- The required resource types are displayed in bold characters.
- If the permissions cannot be granted at the resource level,
All Resourcesis 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.
| Operation | Access level | Resource type | Condition key | Associated operation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ecs:DescribeSecurityGroupReferences | get | *SecurityGroup acs:ecs:{#regionId}:{#accountId}:securitygroup/{#securitygroupId} |
| none |
Request parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RegionId | string | Yes | The ID of the region. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list. | cn-hangzhou |
| SecurityGroupId | array | Yes | The IDs of security groups. You can specify up to 10 IDs of security groups. | |
| string | Yes | The ID of security group N. | sg-bp14vtedjtobkvi**** |
Response parameters
Examples
Sample success responses
JSONformat
{
"RequestId": "473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3****",
"SecurityGroupReferences": {
"SecurityGroupReference": [
{
"SecurityGroupId": "sg-bp67acfmxazb4p****",
"ReferencingSecurityGroups": {
"ReferencingSecurityGroup": [
{
"SecurityGroupId": "sg-bp67acfmxazb4j****",
"AliUid": "123456****"
}
]
}
}
]
}
}Error codes
| HTTP status code | Error code | Error message | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 400 | InvalidSecurityGroupId.Malformed | The specified parameter SecurityGroupId is essential and size should less than 10 | The SecurityGroupId.N parameter is required and the value of N cannot exceed 10. |
| 404 | InvalidRegionId.NotFound | The RegionId provided does not exist in our records. | The RegionId provided does not exist |
| 404 | InvalidSecurityGroupId.NotFound | The SecurityGroupId provided does not exist in our records. | The specified security group does not exist in this account. Check whether the security group ID is correct. |
For a list of error codes, visit the Service error codes.
Change history
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