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Listing the Roots of an Organization

Function

This API is used to list the roots of an organization. It can be called only from the organization's management account or from a member account that is a delegated administrator for a cloud service.

Authorization Information

Each account has all the permissions required to call all APIs, but IAM users must be assigned the required permissions.

If you are using role/policy-based authorization, see Permissions Policies and Supported Actions for details on the required permissions.

If you are using identity policy-based authorization, the following identity policy-based permissions are required.

Action	Access Level	Resource Type (*: required)	Condition Key	Alias	Dependencies
organizations:roots:list	List	-	-	-	-

URI

GET /v1/organizations/roots

**Table 1** Query Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
limit	No	Integer	Maximum number of results on the page. If the limit is not specified, the default value is 1,000.
marker	No	String	Pagination marker.

Request Parameters

**Table 2** Request header parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
X-Security-Token	No	String	Security token (session token) of your temporary security credentials. If a temporary security credential is used, this header is required.

Response Parameters

Status code: 200

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
roots	Array of RootDto objects	List of roots defined in an organization.
page_info	PageInfoDto object	Pagination information.

**Table 4** RootDto
Parameter	Type	Description
id	String	Unique ID of a root.
urn	String	Uniform resource name of the root.
name	String	Root name.
policy_types	Array of PolicyTypeSummaryDto objects	Policy types that are currently enabled for the root. The policies of these types can be attached to the root or to its OUs or accounts.
created_at	String	Time when a root was created.

**Table 5** PolicyTypeSummaryDto
Parameter	Type	Description
status	String	Status of the policy type associated with a root. To attach a policy of a specified type to a root or an OU or account in the root, the policy must be available in the organization and enabled for the root.
type	String	Name of a policy type. It can be service_control_policy or tag_policy.

**Table 6** PageInfoDto
Parameter	Type	Description
next_marker	String	Marker for the next set of results. If present, more output is available than is included in the current response. Use this value in the marker request parameter in a subsequent call to the operation to get the next part of the output. You should repeat this until the next_marker response element comes back as null.
current_count	Integer	Number of items returned on the current page.

Example Requests

Listing the roots of an organization

GET https://{endpoint}/v1/organizations/roots

Example Responses

Status code: 200

Successful.

{
  "roots" : {
    "id" : "r-rpjghpbmumu2hffplsj5edt1z3vybb94",
    "urn" : "organizations::0a6d25d23900d45c0faac010e0fb4de0:root:o-fhkmi6mek7wlqdp6nideqhb47qwtjdsv/r-rpjghpbmumu2hffplsj5edt1z3vybb94",
    "name" : "root",
    "policy_types" : [ {
      "status" : "enabled",
      "type" : "service_control_policy"
    } ],
    "created_at" : "2022-08-24T06:31:46Z"
  },
  "page_info" : {
    "next_marker" : "ou-taowxgy4xbme6m4x3c2iijbxw7yj8fcw",
    "current_count" : 100
  }
}