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#  start-resource-scan  Â¶

##  Description  Â¶

Starts a scan of the resources in this account in this Region. You can the
status of a scan using the ` ListResourceScans  ` API action.

See also: [ AWS API Documentation
](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/WebAPI/cloudformation-2010-05-15/StartResourceScan)

##  Synopsis  Â¶

    
    
      start-resource-scan
    [--client-request-token <value>]
    [--cli-input-json | --cli-input-yaml]
    [--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
    [--debug]
    [--endpoint-url <value>]
    [--no-verify-ssl]
    [--no-paginate]
    [--output <value>]
    [--query <value>]
    [--profile <value>]
    [--region <value>]
    [--version <value>]
    [--color <value>]
    [--no-sign-request]
    [--ca-bundle <value>]
    [--cli-read-timeout <value>]
    [--cli-connect-timeout <value>]
    [--cli-binary-format <value>]
    [--no-cli-pager]
    [--cli-auto-prompt]
    [--no-cli-auto-prompt]
    

##  Options  Â¶

` --client-request-token  ` (string)

> A unique identifier for this ` StartResourceScan  ` request. Specify this
> token if you plan to retry requests so that CloudFormation knows that
> youâre not attempting to start a new resource scan.

` --cli-input-json  ` | ` --cli-input-yaml  ` (string) Reads arguments from the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by ` --generate-cli-skeleton  ` . If other arguments are provided on the command line, those values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally. This may not be specified along with ` --cli-input-yaml  ` . 

` --generate-cli-skeleton  ` (string) Prints a JSON skeleton to standard
output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value
` input  ` , prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for `
--cli-input-json  ` . Similarly, if provided ` yaml-input  ` it will print a
sample input YAML that can be used with ` --cli-input-yaml  ` . If provided
with the value ` output  ` , it validates the command inputs and returns a
sample output JSO