How To Change Resource Status Via API

Overview

This article talks about how to change the status of a resource.

Note that you can not make a direct post to the resource endpoint to change the status. Otherwise, you will run into this error:

"requests. exceptions.HTTPError: 405 Client Error: Method Not Allowed for URL: https://catalog.example.com:443/api/v2/resources/ec2_instances/7130/" 

Considerations

To change the status of a resource from Active to Historical or vice versa via API, create a Resource Action that would handle updating the status of the resource. Then, execute the resource action from https://[yourcbdomain]/api/v3/cmp/resourceActions/

Procedure

Step 1 Add A resource Action

1. As an admin, navigate to Admin -> Resource Actions → Add New action type CB Plug-in.

2. 

   In the code add:

   def run(job, *args, **kwargs):
   r = kwargs.get('resource')
   set_progress("Status of this resource is : {}".format(r.lifecycle))
   r.lifecycle = 'Historical'
   r.save()
   
   return "SUCCESS", "Status Changed Successfully", ""

Step 2 Execute the Action:

1. Make a post call to https://[yourcbdomain]/api/v3/cmp/resourceActions/

Additional information

https://docs.cloudbolt.io/articles/#!cloudbolt-latest-docs/cloudbolt-api-v3