Deleting a protection plan

To delete a protection plan

1. 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...'}
   

2. 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
   

3. Send a DELETE request to the /policy_management/v4/policies/{policy_id} endpoint:

   >>> response = requests.delete(f'{base_url}/policy_management/v4/policies/{policy_id}', headers=auth)
   

4. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   204
   

   Status code 204 means that the protection plan has been successfully deleted.

   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.