Changing access rules

Now that we can automatically retrieve first the access policy and then its access rules, you might be wondering how we can change the rules themselves. A common task when dealing with access rules is to enable or disable them. In this recipe, we will see how you can update the properties of an existing access rule. In our case, we will disable the policy itself.

Getting ready

Open your code editor and start by creating a file called change_access_rules.py. Next, navigate in your terminal to the same directory in which you just created the change_access_rules.py file.

How to do it…

Follow these steps to change an existing access rule and disable it:

1. Import the required requests library as well as the json and sys modules from the standard library:

   import requests
   import json
   import sys
   from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

2. Specify the required variables such as your username, password, domain ID, and the ID of the policy, as well...