Modifies the name or description of a security group.

Debugging

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Request parameters

Parameter Type Required Example Description
Action String Yes ModifySecurityGroupAttribute

The operation that you want to perform. Set the value to ModifySecurityGroupAttribute.
RegionId String Yes cn-hangzhou

The region ID of the security group. You can call the DescribeRegions operation to query the most recent region list.

SecurityGroupId String Yes sg-bp67acfmxazb4p****

The ID of the security group.

SecurityGroupName String No SecurityGroupTestName

The new name of the security group. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter and cannot start with http:// or https://. It can contain letters, digits, colons (:), underscores (_), and hyphens (-).

This parameter is empty by default.
Description String No TestDescription

The new description of the security group. The description must be 2 to 256 characters in length and cannot start with http:// or https://.

This parameter is empty by default.

Response parameters

Parameter Type Example Description
RequestId String 473469C7-AA6F-4DC5-B3DB-A3DC0DE3C83E

The ID of the request.

Examples

Sample requests

https://ecs.aliyuncs.com/?Action=ModifySecurityGroupAttribute
&SecurityGroupId=sg-bp67acfmxazb4p****
&RegionId=cn-hangzhou
&SecurityGroupName=SecurityGroupTestName
&<Common request parameters>

Sample success responses

XML format 

<ModifySecurityGroupAttributeResponse>
       <RequestId>CEF72CEB-54B6-4AE8-B225-F876FF7BA984</RequestId>
</ModifySecurityGroupAttributeResponse>

JSON format 

{
    "RequestId":"CEF72CEB-54B6-4AE8-B225-F876FF7BA984"
}

Error codes

HttpCode Error code Error message Description
404 InvalidSecurityGroupId.NotFound The specified SecurityGroupId does not exist. The error message returned because the specified security group does not exist within this account. Check whether the security group ID is correct.
400 InvalidSecurityGroupName.Malformed Specified security group name is not valid. The error message returned because the specified SecurityGroupName parameter is invalid. By default, the SecurityGroupName parameter is empty. If this parameter is specified, the specified name is displayed on the console. The name must be 2 to 128 characters in length. It must start with a letter and can contain letters, digits, periods (.), underscores (_), and hyphens (-). It cannot start with http:// or https://.
400 InvalidSecurityGroupDiscription.Malformed Specified security group description is not valid. The error message returned because the specified Description parameter is invalid.
403 InvalidOperation.ResourceManagedByCloudProduct %s The error message returned because the security groups managed by cloud services cannot be modified.

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