Update an Existing Section

Modifies the specified section, but does not modify the section's associated rules.

Request:

Method:

PUT

URI Path(s):

/api/v1/pbr/sections/<section-id>

Request Headers:

n/a

Query Parameters:

n/a

Request Body:

PBRSection+

PBRSection (schema)

Name	Description	Type	Notes
_create_time	Timestamp of resource creation	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_create_user	ID of the user who created this resource	string	Readonly
_last_modified_time	Timestamp of last modification	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_last_modified_user	ID of the user who last modified this resource	string	Readonly
_links	References related to this resource The server will populate this field when returing the resource. Ignored on PUT and POST.	array of ResourceLink	Readonly
_protection	Indicates protection status of this resource Protection status is one of the following: PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is not allowed to modify it. NOT_PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is allowed to modify it REQUIRE_OVERRIDE - the client who retrieved the entity is a super user and can modify it, but only when providing the request header X-Allow-Overwrite=true. UNKNOWN - the _protection field could not be determined for this entity.	string	Readonly
_revision	Generation of this resource config The _revision property describes the current revision of the resource. To prevent clients from overwriting each other's changes, PUT operations must include the current _revision of the resource, which clients should obtain by issuing a GET operation. If the _revision provided in a PUT request is missing or stale, the operation will be rejected.	int
_schema	Schema for this resource	string	Readonly
_self	Link to this resource	SelfResourceLink	Readonly
_system_owned	Indicates system owned resource	boolean	Readonly
description	Description of this resource	string	Maximum length: 1024 Sortable
display_name	Identifier to use when displaying entity in logs or GUI Defaults to ID if not set	string	Maximum length: 255 Sortable
id	Unique identifier of this resource	string	Sortable
resource_type	Must be set to the value PBRSection	string
rule_count	Rule count Number of rules in this section.	integer	Readonly
tags	Opaque identifiers meaningful to the API user	array of Tag	Maximum items: 30

Example Request:

PUT https://<nsx-mgr>/api/v1/pbr/sections/65a60890-6f48-418d-a7d5-5aaf65fc4e5b { "_revision": 0, "description": "Provides distributed access to cloud services", "display_name": "DS-PBR-vpc-5b4cf63d" }

Successful Response:

Response Code:

200 OK

Response Headers:

Content-type: application/json

Response Body:

PBRSection+

PBRSection (schema)

Name	Description	Type	Notes
_create_time	Timestamp of resource creation	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_create_user	ID of the user who created this resource	string	Readonly
_last_modified_time	Timestamp of last modification	EpochMsTimestamp	Readonly Sortable
_last_modified_user	ID of the user who last modified this resource	string	Readonly
_links	References related to this resource The server will populate this field when returing the resource. Ignored on PUT and POST.	array of ResourceLink	Readonly
_protection	Indicates protection status of this resource Protection status is one of the following: PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is not allowed to modify it. NOT_PROTECTED - the client who retrieved the entity is allowed to modify it REQUIRE_OVERRIDE - the client who retrieved the entity is a super user and can modify it, but only when providing the request header X-Allow-Overwrite=true. UNKNOWN - the _protection field could not be determined for this entity.	string	Readonly
_revision	Generation of this resource config The _revision property describes the current revision of the resource. To prevent clients from overwriting each other's changes, PUT operations must include the current _revision of the resource, which clients should obtain by issuing a GET operation. If the _revision provided in a PUT request is missing or stale, the operation will be rejected.	int
_schema	Schema for this resource	string	Readonly
_self	Link to this resource	SelfResourceLink	Readonly
_system_owned	Indicates system owned resource	boolean	Readonly
description	Description of this resource	string	Maximum length: 1024 Sortable
display_name	Identifier to use when displaying entity in logs or GUI Defaults to ID if not set	string	Maximum length: 255 Sortable
id	Unique identifier of this resource	string	Sortable
resource_type	Must be set to the value PBRSection	string
rule_count	Rule count Number of rules in this section.	integer	Readonly
tags	Opaque identifiers meaningful to the API user	array of Tag	Maximum items: 30

Example Response:

{ "resource_type": "PBRSection", "description": "Provides distributed access to cloud services", "id": "65a60890-6f48-418d-a7d5-5aaf65fc4e5b", "display_name": "DS-PBR-vpc-5b4cf63d", "rule_count": 0, "_last_modified_user": "system", "_system_owned": true, "_last_modified_time": 1445894033117, "_create_user": "system", "_create_time": 1445894033107, "_revision": 1 }

Update an Existing Section

Request:

PBRSection (schema)

Example Request:

Successful Response:

PBRSection (schema)

Example Response:

Required Permissions:

Feature:

Additional Errors: