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

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

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,

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sungod
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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
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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)
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