Update account through API

Identity Security Cloud (ISC) ISC Discussion and Questions
1

Hello team,

I’m trying to update an account attribute through API, but I’m getting an error that I could not resolve.

Here is how I did the test (I replaces ids with “–” for security purposes) :

  1. Get request on the account:
{
  "authoritative": false,
  "systemAccount": false,
  "uncorrelated": false,
  "features": "DISCOVER_SCHEMA, PASSWORD, ENABLE, PROVISIONING, SYNC_PROVISIONING",
  "uuid": null,
  "nativeIdentity": "--",
  "description": null,
  "disabled": false,
  "locked": false,
  "manuallyCorrelated": true,
  "hasEntitlements": true,
  "sourceId": "--",
  "sourceName": Asana,
  "identityId": "--",
  "attributes": {
    "name.familyName": "Wyguvi",
    "IIQDisabled": false,
    "name.formatted": "Bamij Wyguvi",
    "name.givenName": "Bamij",
    "active": true,
    "id": "--",
    "department": "--",
    "emails.work.primary.value": "[email protected]",
    "userName": "[email protected]",
    "idNowDescription": "--"
  },
  "id": "cbfdc42043cb4d21bfe69aabc173216f",
  "name": "Bamij Wyguvi",
  "created": "2023-02-20T23:06:06.103Z",
  "modified": "2023-02-21T23:03:48.869Z"
}
  1. PUT request on this account to change the attribute (“attributes/active” from true to false)
curl -L -X PUT 'https://tenant.api.identitynow.com/v3/accounts/cbfdc42043cb4d21bfe69aabc173216f' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer ...' \
--data-raw '{
  "attributes": {
    "name.familyName": "Wyguvi",
    "IIQDisabled": false,
    "name.formatted": "Bamij Wyguvi",
    "name.givenName": "Bamij",
    "active": false,
    "id": "--",
    "department": "--",
    "emails.work.primary.value": "[email protected]",
    "userName": "[email protected]",
    "idNowDescription": "--"
  }
}'

And I get the following error:

{
  "detailCode": "400.1 Bad request content",
  "trackingId": "--",
  "messages": [
    {
      "locale": "en-US",
      "localeOrigin": "DEFAULT",
      "text": "The request was syntactically correct but its content is semantically invalid."
    },
    {
      "locale": "fr-FR",
      "localeOrigin": "REQUEST",
      "text": "La requête était syntaxiquement correcte mais son contenu est sémantiquement invalide."
    }
  ],
  "causes": []
}

Can you please help me on this issue, Thanks.

2

Welcome to the developer community @h_ash ,

put-account | SailPoint Developer Community will only work on delimited file sources. Is your source a delimited file?

3

Hey @colin_mckibben,
I think this is SCIM 2.0 configuration, any chance of changing the attribute with this kind of config ?

Thanks

4

Flat file sources are essentially a source hosted by SailPoint, so that is why we provide an API for updating attributes directly on the flat file source. Direct connection sources are not hosted by SailPoint, so you would have to use your source’s API to do a direct attribute update (ex. calling an update account API endpoint using the Active Directory API).

The ideal way to have IdentityNow update attributes on a source is through attribute sync: Synchronizing Attributes - SailPoint Identity Services. This allows IDN to mange the update of account attributes based on identity attributes and access profiles.