Updating a policy or protection plan

To update 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
    ...             }
    ...         ]
    ...     }
    ... }
    

    Note

    For the list of available JSON parameters, see the Resource and Policy Management 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 successfully.

    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.