I have been trying to update my SSM agent. I'm running the command AWS updatessmagent

Question

I have been trying to update my SSM agent. I'm running the command AWS updatessmagent. This is what I am getting.

PS C:\Windows\Temp> AWS-UpdateSSMAgent

AWS-UpdateSSMAgent : The term 'AWS-UpdateSSMAgent' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file,
or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
At line:1 char:1

AWS-UpdateSSMAgent
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (AWS-UpdateSSMAgent:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

can anyone help.

Answer 1

According to AWS documentation for Windows, manual updates to SSM agent are done manually. It looks like the powershell commands are

Invoke-WebRequest `
  https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/latest/windows_amd64/AmazonSSMAgentSetup.exe `
-OutFile $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\SSMAgent_latest.exe

Start-Process `
  -FilePath $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\SSMAgent_latest.exe `
  -ArgumentList "/S"

rm -Force $env:USERPROFILE\Desktop\SSMAgent_latest.exe

You can also set up automatic SSM agent updates as described here.

I suspect the command you ran was for Linux.