Updating a policy or 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 policies 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 policy. As an example, the ID of the first policy will be taken:

   >>> policy_id = policies[0]['id']
   >>> policy_id
   33965f81-7293-45d4-9f13-dc4281d7bdfd
   

3. Define a variable named policy_status, and then assign an object with the subject key containing a policy to this variable:

   >>> policy_status = {
   ...     "subject": {
   ...         "policy": [
   ...             {
   ...                 "enabled": true
   ...             }
   ...         ]
   ...     }
   ... }
   

   For the list of available JSON parameters, refer to the API reference.

4. Convert the policy_status object to a JSON text:

   >>> policy_status = json.dumps(policy_status, indent=4)
   

5. Send a PATCH request with the JSON text to the /policy_management/v4/policies/{policy_id} endpoint:

   >>> response = requests.patch(
   ...     f'{base_url}/policy_management/v4/policies/{policy_id}',
   ...     headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json', **auth},
   ...     data=policy_status,
   ... )
   

6. Check the status code of the response:

   >>> response.status_code
   204
   

   Status code 204 means that the plan has been updated without any issues.

   A different status code means that an error has occurred. For the details, refer to “Status and error codes”.