Applying a protection plan to resources
To apply a protection plan to resources
Authenticate to the cloud platform via the Python shell.
The following variables should be available now:
>>> base_url # the base URL of the API 'https://eu2-cloud.acronis.com/api' >>> auth # the 'Authorization' header value with the access token {'Authorization': 'Bearer eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImMwMD...'}
Fetch the protection plans as described in Fetching a list of policies and protection plans, then define the
policy_id
variable and assign it with the ID of a protection plan. As an example, the ID of the first protection plan will be taken:>>> policy_id = protection_plans[0]['id'] >>> policy_id 5b15f6e1-88ec-4dce-b523-0e8394c0bc19
Fetch the resources as described in Fetching a list of all resources, then define the
resource_id
variable and assign it with the ID of a resource. As an example, the ID of the first resource will be taken:>>> resource_id = resources[0]['id'] >>> resource_id '5c350066-2ba6-4eeb-aa91-1213dd35f033'
Define a variable named
application_data
, and then assign an object containing thepolicy_id
key with the ID of protection plan, and thecontext
object with theitems
key containing a list of resource IDs to this variable:>>> application_data = { ... 'policy_id': policy_id, ... 'context': { ... 'items': [ ... resource_id ... ] ... } ... }
Convert the
application_data
object to a JSON text:>>> application_data = json.dumps(application_data, indent=4)
Send a POST request with the JSON text to the
/policy_management/v4/applications
endpoint:>>> response = requests.post( ... f'{base_url}/policy_management/v4/applications', ... headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json', **auth}, ... data=application_data, ... )
Check the status code of the response:
>>> response.status_code 200
Status code 200 means that the protection plan has been applied to provided resources.
Note
A different status code means that an error has occurred. For details of the error, see HTTP status response codes and API error codes.
Also, the response body contains an object with the
issues
key, containing an empty array, formatted as a JSON text. When converted to an object, it will look like this:>>> pprint.pprint(response.json()) {'issues': []}