# pmp-check-aws-rds.py Issues

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/pmp-check-aws-rds-py-issues/4000>\
**Category:** Percona Monitoring Plugins\
**Created:** [January 18, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmp-check-aws-rds-py-issues/4000 "2015-01-18T19:44:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![neofire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@neofire](https://forums.percona.com/u/neofire)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmp-check-aws-rds-py-issues/4000/1 "2015-01-18T19:44:42Z")

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Hey All

I am trying to configure the percona-nagios-plugins as i would like to monitor some RDS Instnaces that i have but i am running into issues

i have followed the documentation and i am getting a little frustrated as i keep getting errors or nothing gets returned

For example if i run ./pmp-check-aws-rds.py -l it returns “List of All DB Instnaces ” and if i run ./pmp-check-aws-rds.py -i “Instance-name” -p it returns No DB instance “Instance-name” found on your AWS account.

i have got the correct aws keys in the /etc/boto.cfg file and python-boto is installed, can someone help please

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**Author:** ![weber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/da6949/32.png) [@weber](https://forums.percona.com/u/weber)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmp-check-aws-rds-py-issues/4000/2 "2015-01-22T10:46:33Z")

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Most likely, some permissions does not allow to access RDS.

You can test this way:

[root@centos6 ~]# python  
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Jul 10 2013, 22:48:45)  
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3)] on linux2  
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.

> > > import boto  
> > > boto.connect\_rds()  
> > > RDSConnection:rds.us-east-1.amazonaws.com  
> > > boto.connect\_rds().get\_all\_dbinstances()

But I really don’t have any RDS under my account 🙂