Configuration API - updateSiteGeneralDetails

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Overview of updateSiteGeneralDetails

Use the updateSiteGeneralDetails mutation API to update the following settings in the General section for a site in the Cato Management Application (Network > Sites > {site name} > Site Configuration > General)

Name
Description
Type
Timezone
Country
State
Address

Locating the accountId for Your Account

This account ID isn't shown in the Cato Management Application, instead it is the number in the URL for the Cato Management Application. For example, the account ID is 26 for the following URL: https://cc.catonetworks.com/#!/26/topology.

Enter this ID in the accountId argument for the site creation API, for example:

site(accountId: 26) {
    addSocketSite(input: $addSocketSite) { 
        siteId 
    } 
}

Locating the siteID for a Site

The site ID isn't shown in the Cato Management Application, you can locate the site ID:

Using the entityLookup API query (see Cato API - EntityLookup), use the type with the value site

You can also use the search parameter with the value as the name of the site, and the query returns the site ID
Number in the URL for the Cato Management Application, when you selected a site (Network > Sites > {site name}). For example, the site ID is 12345 for the following URL: https://cc.catonetworks.com/#/26/sites/12345/networkAnalytics

Details for the updateSiteGeneralDetails Arguments

These are the arguments for updating the following General settings for a site using the Cato configuration API. The arguments are mandatory unless marked as optional:

name - Name of the site
siteType - Type of site in your organization, for example Cloud Data Center
description - (optional) Description of the site
siteLocation - Data about the physical location of the site

updateSiteGeneralDetails Name

Update the name of the site.

updateSiteGeneralDetails siteType

The siteType is an enum argument that defines the type of site which determines which icon is used for the site in the Monitoring > Topology screen in the Cato Management Application.

These are the options:

updateSiteGeneralDetails description (Optional)

The description is an optional free-text field to describe the site.

updateSiteGeneralDetails siteLocation

The siteLocation arguments define the following physical details for the site. The countryCode is relevant to the number of site licenses that are available for a specific Region in your account.

You can use the entityLookup API query to retrieve values for these arguments, see Cato API - EntityLookup.

These are the siteLocation arguments:

countryCode - Two letter code (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2) for the country where the site is located

For entityLookup, use the type with the value country
stateCode - (Optional) For the applicable countries, the state where the site is located

For entityLookup, use the type with the value countryState
timezone - Time zone for the site, used to set the time frame for the Maintenance Window for Socket and vSocket upgrades

For entityLookup, use the type with the value timezone
address - (Optional) Street address for the physical site

Sample Postman Script

mutation updateSiteGeneralDetails ($accountId: ID!, $siteID: ID!, $input: UpdateSiteGeneralDetailsInput!) {
    site(accountId: $accountId) {
        updateSiteGeneralDetails (siteId: $siteID, input: $input) {
            siteId
        }
    }
}

GraphQL Variables

{
    "accountId": "",
    "siteID": "",
    "input": {
        "name": "MySite",
        "description": "My first DC using the API",
        "siteType": "DATACENTER",
        "siteLocation": {
            "countryCode": "FR",
            "timezone": "Europe/Paris"
        }
    }
}

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