How to add a tag without losing the information that was there before?

[Kenneth_rf]

Hello,

I am trying to make an UPDATE of certain ports of all the switches in our organization so that they are managed via port_management.

I am doing tests and when carrying out the update I have noticed that the configuration that I had before is loaded, that is, I lose the tag that was there before but my intention is to keep it.

Any solution via API?

Regards,

[sungod]

In general, where you want to use the API to 'update' an existing element by adding/removing one or more items in it, the method to use is...

Read the value of the element into a local variable.

Make the required changes to that local copy.

Write the updated element value back.

[ls08]

sungod has it nailed

in python the code below will do what OP is looking

import meraki

API_KEY = "API-KEY-HERE"

dashboard = meraki.DashboardAPI(API_KEY,suppress_logging=True)

response = dashboard.networks.getNetwork(

    network_id

)

#This looks for existing tags and stores it into local variable

updated_tags = response['tags']

#Below adds two tags.

updated_tags.append('WIFI')

updated_tags.append('NEW YORK')

#Finally update the network with the tag. Keeps the existing tags and adds the two I mentioned.

response = dashboard.networks.updateNetwork(

    network_id,

    tags=updated_tags

)

print(response)