Update a Device Group
put
/{versionId}/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups/{groupId}
Rename a device group in Device Manager. You can also use this method to move a device group to another parent group within Device Manager.
Request
Path Parameters
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Response
200 Response
400 Response
The user input is invalid.
401 Response
The session ID is invalid.
404 Response
The object (resource URI, device, and so on) of your input request cannot be found.
Examples
Examples of Accessing the API
See Authenticate for how to acquire a session cookie.
The following example shows how to update a device group using curl.
curl -X PUT \
-b sessionid.txt \
-d@request.xml \
--header "Accept: application/xml" \
--header "Content-Type: application/xml" \
"https://example.com:8443/rest/v1.3/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups/ID24"The following example shows how to update a device group using Python.
import requests
from lxml import etree
url = "https://example.com:8443/rest/v1.3/inventory/deviceMgmt/deviceGroups/ID24"
headers = { "Accept":"application/xml", "Content-Type: application/xml", "Cookie":cookie }
data = etree.tostring(etree.parse("request.json"))
resp = requests.put(url, headers=headers, data=data)Example of the Request Body
The following example shows the contents of the request body in XML.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceGroup>
<parentGroupFullName>HG1</parentGroupFullName>
<name>testGroup</name>
</deviceGroup>The following example shows the contents of the request body in JSON.
{
"parentGroupFullName": "HG1"
"name": "testGroup"
}Example of the Response Body
The following example shows the contents of the response body in XML.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<deviceGroup>
<fullName>HG1/testGroup</fullName>
<id>ID24</id>
<isHidden>false</isHidden>
<name>testGroup</name>
<parentGroupFullName>HG1</parentGroupFullName>
<parentGroupId>ID3</parentGroupId>
</deviceGroup>The following example shows the contents of the response body in JSON.
{
"fullName": "HG1/testGroup",
"id": "ID24",
"isHidden": "false",
"name": "testGroup",
"parentGroupFullName": "HG1"
"parentGroupId": "ID3"
}