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title: "zestyctl verification - Verify AWS account and Linux instance permissions"
slug: "zestyctl-verification-verify-linux-instance-permissions"
updated: 2025-05-05T12:33:03Z
published: 2025-05-05T12:33:03Z
canonical: "docs.zesty.co/zestyctl-verification-verify-linux-instance-permissions"
---

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# zestyctl verification - Verify AWS account and Linux instance permissions

This topic describes the `zestyctl verification` CLI command.

Before using Zesty Disk on your account or instance type/image, use the `zestyctl verification` command to check that the AWS instance’s account and instance has the necessary permissions to run Zesty Disk features.

Run the verification command before using these features:

- Create a new Zesty Disk filesystem.
- Configure a filesystem with Auto Extend.
- Run EZswitch for an existing filesystem.

You can run the command once to verify all of the features, or you can run it multiple times and specify which feature to verify on each run.

During verification, a volume is created and deleted in the instances AWS account. If tagging is enforced on new volumes, use the `--device_name` flag to specify an existing instance device. The verification will identify the related EBS volume and its tags and will use those for the volume created for the verification test.

### Syntax

`zestyctl disk verification start [--feature=<feature>] [--device_name=<device>]`

The verification process may take a few minutes. When you want to see results, run the following command:

`zestyctl disk verification status`

#### Example

The following example will start verification for EZswitch, using tagging from a current device:

`zestyctl disk verification start [--feature=ezswitch] [--device_name=/dev/xvdb]`

### Parameters

| Parameter | Description | Required |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `zestyctl disk verification start` | Starts the verification process. | Y |
| `--feature` | Verifies permissions required for a specific Zesty Disk feature. Type the string for the feature to verify. - zestydisk - ezswitch - autoextend If you do not include this flag, the verification command will verify permissions for all features at one time. | N |
| `--device_name` | Indicates a current device from which tagging information can be derived. | N |

| Parameter | Description | Required |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `zestyctl disk verification status` | Shows the verification report. | Y |

### Output

After running the `zestyctl disk verification status` command, output similar to the following is displayed:

```plaintext
# zestyctl disk verification status
The verification process completed successfully.
Describe instances: Pass
Create volume: Pass
Create snapshot: Pass
Delete snapshot: Pass
Modify volume: Pass
Create tags: Pass
Attach volume: Pass
Detach volume: Pass
Delete volume: Pass
```

If errors are shown, they are usually configuration errors, not issues in Zesty Disk.

If errors are shown when verifying for all features, you can run the verification command on a feature-by-feature basis to isolate the issue.

#### Prerequisites

- Zesty Disk Agent is installed

The zestyctl CLI is enabled as part of the Agent installation.

For more information, see [Install the Zesty Disk Agent on standalone instances](https://docs.zesty.co/docs/install-the-zesty-disk-agent).
- Root access to the Linux instance