Technical Tip: How to rename a metadata via the FortiManager API

Description

This article describes how to rename metadata via API.

Scope

FortiManager

Solution

The following example demonstrates how to rename the test_1 metadata to test_2 in the Fortinet ADOM.

Request:

{
  "id": 1,
  "method": "set",
  "params": [
    {
      "data": {
        "name": "test_2"
      },
      "url": "/pm/config/adom/Fortinet/obj/fmg/variable/test_1"
    }
  ],
  "session": "{{session}}"
}

  
Response:

{
  "id": 3,
  "result": [
    {
      "data": {
        "name": "test_2"
      },
      "status": {
        "code": 0,
        "message": "OK"
      },
      "url": "/pm/config/adom/Fortinet/obj/fmg/variable/test_1"
    }
  ]
}