Restarting DCS Instances or Clearing DCS Instance Data

This API is used to restart a running DCS instance.

Data clearance operations cannot be undone on DCS Redis 4.0 and later instances.

For details, see Calling APIs.

PUT /v2/{project_id}/instances/status

**Table 1** Path Parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
project_id	Yes	String	Project ID. For details, see Obtaining a Project ID.

**Table 2** Request body parameters
Parameter	Mandatory	Type	Description
instances	No	Array of strings	List of instance IDs.
action	No	String	Operation on the instance: restart: force restart soft_restart: restart only the instance process flush: clear data NOTE: Only DCS Redis 4.0 and later instances can be flushed.

Status code: 200

**Table 3** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
results	Array of BatchOpsResult objects	Result of deleting, restarting, or clearing data of an instance.

**Table 4** BatchOpsResult
Parameter	Type	Description
result	String	Instance deletion result. Options: success and failed.
instance	String	DCS instance ID.

Status code: 400

**Table 5** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_msg	String	Parameter description: Error message. Value range: N/A.
error_code	String	Parameter description: Error code. Value range: For details, see Error Codes.
error_ext_msg	String	Parameter description: Extended error information. This parameter is not used currently and is set to null. Value range: N/A.

Status code: 500

**Table 6** Response body parameters
Parameter	Type	Description
error_msg	String	Parameter description: Error message. Value range: N/A.
error_code	String	Parameter description: Error code. Value range: For details, see Error Codes.
error_ext_msg	String	Parameter description: Extended error information. This parameter is not used currently and is set to null. Value range: N/A.

Force restarting a DCS instance

PUT https://{dcs_endpoint}/v2/{project_id}/instances/status

{
  "instances" : [ "2e803f66-fbb0-47ad-b6cb-fb87f5bed4ef" ],
  "action" : "restart"
}

Status code: 200

DCS instances restarted successfully or the instance data cleared successfully.

{
  "results" : [ {
    "instance" : "e3a7019c-8824-4c1a-8289-5300f19b9f64",
    "result" : "success"
  } ]
}

Status Code	Description
200	DCS instances restarted successfully or the instance data cleared successfully.
400	Invalid request.
500	Internal service error.

Parent topic: Instance Management

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