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Update the retention period of an EBR policy

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PATCH /storage/snaplock/event-retention/policies/{policy.name}

Introduced In: 9.7

Updates the retention period of an Event Based Retention (EBR) policy.

  • snaplock event-retention policy modify

Example

Updates the retention period of an EBR policy "policy_name":

PATCH "/api/storage/snaplock/event-retention/policies/{policy.name}" '{"retention_period": "P20Y"}'

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Parameters

Name Type In Required Description

policy.name

string

path

True

Name of the retention policy

Request Body

Name Type Description

_links

_links

name

string

Specifies the EBR policy name

retention_period

string

Specifies the retention period of an event based retention policy. The retention period value represents a duration and must be specified in the ISO-8601 duration format. The retention period can be in years, months, days, hours or minutes. A period specified for years, months and days is represented in the ISO-8601 format as "PY", "PM", "PD" respectively. For example "P10Y" represents a duration of 10 years. Similarly, a duration in hours, minutes is represented by "PTH", "PTM" respectively. The period string must contain only a single time element i.e. either years, months, days, hours or minutes. A duration which combines different periods is not supported, example "P1Y10M" is not supported. Apart from the duration specified in the ISO-8601 format, the retention period field also accepts the strings "infinite" and "unspecified".

svm

svm

SVM, applies only to SVM-scoped objects.
Example request 
{
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "/api/resourcelink"
    }
  },
  "name": "string",
  "retention_period": "P30M",
  "svm": {
    "_links": {
      "self": {
        "href": "/api/resourcelink"
      }
    },
    "name": "svm1",
    "uuid": "02c9e252-41be-11e9-81d5-00a0986138f7"
  }
}

Response

Status: 200, Ok

Error

Status: Default

ONTAP Error Response codes

Error code Description

918253

Incorrect format for the retention period, duration must be in the ISO-8601 format or infinite or unspecified.

13763280

Only a user with security login role "vsadmin-snaplock" is allowed to perform this operation.
Name Type Description

error

returned_error
Example error 
{
  "error": {
    "arguments": [
      {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "string"
      }
    ],
    "code": "4",
    "message": "entry doesn't exist",
    "target": "uuid"
  }
}

Definitions

See Definitions

href

Name Type Description

href

string

_links

Name Type Description

self

href

svm

SVM, applies only to SVM-scoped objects.

Name Type Description

_links

_links

name

string

The name of the SVM. This field cannot be specified in a PATCH method.

uuid

string

The unique identifier of the SVM. This field cannot be specified in a PATCH method.

snaplock_retention_policy

Name Type Description

_links

_links

name

string

Specifies the EBR policy name

retention_period

string

Specifies the retention period of an event based retention policy. The retention period value represents a duration and must be specified in the ISO-8601 duration format. The retention period can be in years, months, days, hours or minutes. A period specified for years, months and days is represented in the ISO-8601 format as "PY", "PM", "PD" respectively. For example "P10Y" represents a duration of 10 years. Similarly, a duration in hours, minutes is represented by "PTH", "PTM" respectively. The period string must contain only a single time element i.e. either years, months, days, hours or minutes. A duration which combines different periods is not supported, example "P1Y10M" is not supported. Apart from the duration specified in the ISO-8601 format, the retention period field also accepts the strings "infinite" and "unspecified".

svm

svm

SVM, applies only to SVM-scoped objects.

error_arguments

Name Type Description

code

string

Argument code

message

string

Message argument

returned_error

Name Type Description

arguments

array[error_arguments]

Message arguments

code

string

Error code

message

string

Error message

target

string

The target parameter that caused the error.