"[Network] is not unique" error while trying to get rule from domain with global policy(provider1)

[Ekta_Siwani1]

Hi,

I have a multi-domain server (Provider 1) with a domain (global policy assigned).

I tried to get rule using R80 API, it shows error "Requested object name [Network] is not unique."

To login I used following syntax:

{

"user" : "username",
"password" : "password",

"domain" : "domain name"

}

To get rule i used "show-access-rule" and syntax used is:

{
"name" : "Clean up",
"layer" : "Network"
}

This works fine with the domain without global policy assigned. What is the correct way to fetch this from a domain with global policy? The rule which I am trying to fetch is not a global rule.

When I tried fetching the list of layers I got two "Network" layer:

{
"access-layers": [
{
"uid": "4847c238-7891-446b-ba68-a540e67155be",
"name": "Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"domain": {
"uid": "e0d03ca1-01cc-43b4-a09f-0ef5eb1d9dc7",
"name": "domain name",
"domain-type": "domain"
}
},
{
"uid": "87ed1061-d5f9-4318-90d9-1be3badc4c76",
"name": "Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"domain": {
"uid": "1e294ce0-367a-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9a66",
"name": "Global",
"domain-type": "global domain"
}
},
{
"uid": "7c45f8a9-07c6-4ac8-9f48-c791b8ab3dad",
"name": "Policy1 Network",
"type": "access-layer",
"domain": {
"uid": "1e294ce0-367a-11e3-aa6e-0800200c9a66",
"name": "Global",
"domain-type": "global domain"
}
}
],
"from": 1,
"to": 3,
"total": 3
}

[Robert_Decker · Accepted solution]

You have two policy layers named "Network" - one in a local domain and other in a global domain.

When you assign a glopal policy to a domain, the policy package now contains two layers with a same name - hence the ambiguity.

To overcome this name ambiguity, you have to use the UID of the layer in API commands.

[Ekta_Siwani1]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the reply.

Is this the only way (using UID) to tell API which layer we want to use.

[Robert_Decker]

After the global policy assignment - yes.

You can extract the UID from the access-layers query, mentioned in your post above.

The domain name field in the above response is your reference to the correct layer.