AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Modifying a CloudTrail Trail using the AWS CLI

With the Trail in place, you can now use either the AWS Management Console or the AWS CLI to modify its settings. In this case, we will look at how to perform simple changes to the newly created Trail using the AWS CLI itself. Before proceeding with this section, however, it is important that you have installed and configured the AWS CLI on your desktop/laptop, based on the guides provided at http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html.

Once the CLI is installed and configured, we can now run some simple commands to verify its validity. To start off, let's first check the status of our newly-created Trail by using the describe-trails command, as shown in the following command: ...