1. API Description

Domain name for API request: vpc.tencentcloudapi.com.

This API is used to create a security group with the same rule configurations as an existing security group. The cloning only copies the security group and its rules, but not the security group tags.

A maximum of 20 requests can be initiated per second for this API.

Note: This API supports Finance regions. If the common parameter Region is a Finance region, a domain name with the Finance region needs to be specified, for example: vpc.ap-shanghai-fsi.tencentcloudapi.com

2. Input Parameters

The following request parameter list only provides API request parameters and some common parameters. For the complete common parameter list, see Common Request Parameters.

3. Output Parameters

4. Example

Example1 Cloning a security group

Input Example

https://vpc.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=CloneSecurityGroup
&SecurityGroupId=sg-12345678
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "354f4ac3-8546-4516-8c8a-69e3ab73aa8a",
    "SecurityGroup": {
      "SecurityGroupId": "sg-12341234",
      "SecurityGroupName": "TestGroup",
      "SecurityGroupDesc": "test-group-desc",
      "ProjectId": "0"
    }
  }
}

Example2 Cloning a security group and specifying the name and description of the newly created one

Input Example

https://vpc.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=CloneSecurityGroup
&SecurityGroupId=sg-12345678
&GroupName=test
&GroupDescription=test
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "354f4ac3-8546-4516-8c8a-69e3ab73aa8a",
    "SecurityGroup": {
      "SecurityGroupId": "sg-12341256",
      "SecurityGroupName": "test",
      "SecurityGroupDesc": "test",
      "ProjectId": "0"
    }
  }
}

Example3 Cloning a security group and specifying the project ID of the newly created one

Input Example

https://vpc.tencentcloudapi.com/?Action=CloneSecurityGroup
&SecurityGroupId=sg-12345678
&ProjectId=1001
&<Common request parameters>

Output Example

{
  "Response": {
    "RequestId": "354f4ac3-8546-4516-8c8a-69e3ab73aa8a",
    "SecurityGroup": {
      "SecurityGroupId": "sg-12341278",
      "SecurityGroupName": "TestGroup",
      "SecurityGroupDesc": "test-group-desc",
      "ProjectId": "1001"
    }
  }
}

5. Developer Resources

SDK

TencentCloud API 3.0 integrates SDKs that support various programming languages to make it easier for you to call APIs.

• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Python
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Java
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for PHP
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for Go
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for NodeJS
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for .NET
• Tencent Cloud SDK 3.0 for C++

Command Line Interface

• Tencent Cloud CLI 3.0

6. Error Code

The following only lists the error codes related to the API business logic. For other error codes, see Common Error Codes.