Reboot Role Instance

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08/03/2016

The Reboot Role Instance asynchronous operation requests a reboot of a role instance that is running in a deployment.

Request

The Reboot Role Instance request may be specified as follows. Replace <subscription-id> with your subscription ID, <cloudservice-name> with the name of the cloud service, <deployment-slot> with staging or production, or <deployment-name> with the name of your deployment. Replace <role-instance-name> with the name of your role instance.

Method	Request URI
POST	https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices/<cloudservice-name>/deploymentslots/<deployment-slot>/roleinstances/<role-instance-name>
POST	https://management.core.windows.net/<subscription-id>/services/hostedservices/<cloudservice-name>/deployments/<deployment-name>/roleinstances/<role-instance-name>

URI Parameters

URI Parameter	Description
comp=reboot	Required. Specifies that the instance of the role must be rebooted.

Request Headers

The following table describes the request headers.

Request Header	Description
Content-Type	Required. Set this header to application/xml.
x-ms-version	Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. The value of this header must be set to 2010-10-28 or higher.
ContentLength	Required. Must be set to 0.

Request Body

None.

Response

The response includes an HTTP status code and a set of response headers.

Status Code

A successful operation returns status code 200 (OK).

Response Headers

The response for this operation includes the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers.

Response Header	Description
x-ms-request-id	A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the management service. For an asynchronous operation, you can call Get Operation Status with the value of the header to determine whether the operation is complete, has failed, or is still in progress.

Response Body