ec2-delete-dhcp-options

Description

Deletes a set of DHCP options that you specify. Amazon VPC returns an error if the set of options you specify is currently associated with a VPC. You can disassociate the set of options by associating either a new set of options or the default options with the VPC.

For more information about Amazon Virtual Private Cloud and DHCP options sets, go to Using DHCP Options in Your VPC in the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud User Guide.

The short version of this command is ec2deldopt.

Syntax

ec2-delete-dhcp-options dhcp_options_id

Options

Name Description Required

Name	Description	Required
`dhcp_options_id`	The ID of the DHCP options set you want to delete. Type: String Default: None Example: dopt-7a8b9c2d	Yes

dhcp_options_id

The ID of the DHCP options set you want to delete.

Type: String

Default: None

Example: dopt-7a8b9c2d

Yes

Common Options

Option	Description
`--region` `REGION`	Overrides the Region specified in the `EC2_URL` environment variable and the URL specified by the `-U` option. Default: The `EC2_URL` environment variable, or `us-east-1` if the environment variable is not set. Example: `--region eu-west-1`
`-U, --url` `URL`	`URL` is the uniform resource locator of the Amazon EC2 web service entry point. Default: The `EC2_URL` environment variable, or https://ec2.amazonaws.com if the environment variable is not set. Example: `-U https://ec2.amazonaws.com`
`-K, --private-key` `EC2-PRIVATE-KEY`	The private key to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the `EC2_PRIVATE_KEY` environment variable. Example: `-K pk-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBEXAMPLE.pem`
`-C, --cert` `EC2-CERT`	The X.509 certificate to use when constructing requests to Amazon EC2. Default: The value of the `EC2_CERT` environment variable. Example: `-C cert-HKZYKTAIG2ECMXYIBH3HXV4ZBEXAMPLE.pem`
`--connection-timeout` `TIMEOUT`	Specifies a connection timeout (in seconds). Example: --connection-timeout 30
`--request-timeout` `TIMEOUT`	Specifies a request timeout (in seconds). Example: --request-timeout 45
`-v, --verbose`	Displays verbose output by showing the SOAP request and response on the command line. This is particularly useful if you are building tools to talk directly to our SOAP API.
`-H, --headers`	Displays column headers in the output.
`--show-empty-fields`	Shows empty columns as `(nil)`.
`--hide-tags`	Do not display tags for tagged resources.
`--debug`	Prints internal debugging information. This is useful to assist us when troubleshooting problems.
`-?, --help, -h`	Displays Help.
`-`	If `-` is specified as an argument to one of the parameters, a list of arguments is read from standard input. This is useful for piping the output of one command into the input of another. Example: `ec2-describe-instances \| grep stopped \| cut -f 2 \| ec2-start-instances -`

Output

The command returns a table that contains the following information:

Output type identifier ("DHCPOPTIONS")
DHCP options ID

Amazon EC2 command line tools display errors on stderr.

Examples

Example Request

This example deletes the set of DHCP options with ID dopt-7a8b9c2d.

PROMPT> ec2-delete-dhcp-options dopt-7a8b9c2d 
DHCPOPTIONS dopt-7a8b9c2d