Service Management

POST Method

To manage the available services and take actions on the services, execute a POST request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket  /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock  --request POST --data '{"action":"{command}”,”unit”:”{unit}"}' http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd

The following table lists the parameters:

Parameter	Description
Unit	The name of the service you want to manage.
Action Commands	The action you want to take on the service. Start, stop, restart, try-restart, reload-or-restart, reload, enable, disable, mask, unnmask, kill

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock --request POST --data '{"action":"start","unit":"nginx.service"}' http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd

Response:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":"",
   "errors":""
}

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock --request POST --data '{"action":"stop","unit":"nginx.service"}' http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd

Response:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":"",
   "errors":""
}

GET Method:

Status of all the services:

The systemctl list-unit-files command lists all the services available in the system. To fetch the list of services listed in the list-unit files, execute a GET request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/units

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/units

Status of a Specific Service:

To receive the status details of a specific service, execute a GET request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/{unit}/status

The following table lists the parameter:

Parameter	Description
Unit	The name of the service for which you want to get the status.

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost:5208/api/v1/service/systemd/nginx.service/status | jq	% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current	Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed	100 514 100 514 0 0 38298 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 39538

Response:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":{
      "Property":"inactive",
      "Unit":"nginx.service",
      "Name":"nginx.service",
      "Description":"Nginx High-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy",
      "MainPid":0,
      "LoadState":"loaded",
      "ActiveState":"inactive",
      "SubState":"dead",
      "Followed":"",
      "Path":"/org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/nginx_2eservice",
      "JobId":0,
      "JobType":"",
      "JobPath":"/",
      "UnitFileState":"disabled",
      "StateChangeTimestamp":0,
      "InactiveExitTimestamp":0,
      "ActiveEnterTimestamp":0,
      "ActiveExitTimestamp":0,
      "InactiveEnterTimestamp":0
   },
   "errors":""
}

Value of a Specific Property

To fetch the value of a specific property, execute a GET request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/manager/property/Version

The following table lists the parameter:

Parameter	Description
Property	Version, Features, Virtualization, Architecture, Tainted.

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://127.0.0.1/api/v1/service/systemd/manager/property/Virtualization

Response:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":{
      "property":"Virtualization",
      "value":"vmware"
   },
   "errors":""
}

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://127.0.0.1/api/v1/service/systemd/manager/property/Architecture

Response:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":{
      "property":"Architecture",
      "value":"x86-64"
   },
   "errors":""
}

Properties of a Specific Service

To fetch the property of a specific service, execute a GET request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/{unit}/property

The following table lists the parameter:

Parameter	Description
Unit	The name of the service for which you want to get the properties.

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/nginx.service/property

Properties of All Services

To fetch all the properties of a service, execute a GET request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/{unit}/propertyall

The following table lists the parameter:

Parameter	Description
Unit	The name of the service for which you want to fetch the properties.

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/nginx.service/propertyall | jq % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 9652 0 9652 0 0 1058k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1178k

Configuration Details

To receive the configuration details, execute a GET request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/conf

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/conf

Response:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":{
      "CPUAffinity":"",
      "CapabilityBoundingSe":"",
      "CrashChangeVT":"",
      "CrashReboot":"",
      "CrashShell":"",
      "CtrlAltDelBurstAction":"",
      "DefaultBlockIOAccounting":"",
      "DefaultCPUAccounting":"",
      "DefaultEnvironment":"",
      "DefaultIOAccounting":"",
      "DefaultIPAccounting":"",
      "DefaultLimitAS":"",
      "DefaultLimitCORE":"",
      "DefaultLimitCPU":"",
      "DefaultLimitDATA":"",
      "DefaultLimitFSIZE":"",
      "DefaultLimitLOCKS":"",
      "DefaultLimitMEMLOCK":"",
      "DefaultLimitMSGQUEUE":"",
      "DefaultLimitNICE":"",
      "DefaultLimitNOFILE":"",
      "DefaultLimitNPROC":"",
      "DefaultLimitRSS":"",
      "DefaultLimitRTPRIO":"",
      "DefaultLimitRTTIME":"",
      "DefaultLimitSIGPENDING":"",
      "DefaultLimitSTACK":"",
      "DefaultMemoryAccounting":"",
      "DefaultRestartSec":"",
      "DefaultStandardError":"",
      "DefaultStandardOutput":"",
      "DefaultStartLimitBurst":"",
      "DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec":"",
      "DefaultTasksAccounting":"",
      "DefaultTasksMax":"",
      "DefaultTimeoutStartSec":"",
      "DefaultTimeoutStopSec":"",
      "DefaultTimerAccuracySec":"",
      "DumpCore":"",
      "IPAddressAllow":"",
      "IPAddressDeny":"",
      "JoinControllers":"",
      "LogColor":"",
      "LogLevel":"",
      "LogLocation":"",
      "LogTarget":"",
      "RuntimeWatchdogSec":"",
      "ShowStatus":"",
      "ShutdownWatchdogSec":"",
      "SystemCallArchitectures":"",
      "TimerSlackNSec":""
   },
   "errors":""
}

Configuration Update Details

To fetch the details about the configuration updates, execute a GET request in the following format:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/conf/update

Example:

curl --unix-socket /run/photon-mgmt/mgmt.sock http://localhost/api/v1/service/systemd/conf/update

Response:

{
   "success":true,
   "message":{
      "CPUAffinity":"",
      "CapabilityBoundingSe":"",
      "CrashChangeVT":"",
      "CrashReboot":"",
      "CrashShell":"",
      "CtrlAltDelBurstAction":"",
      "DefaultBlockIOAccounting":"",
      "DefaultCPUAccounting":"",
      "DefaultEnvironment":"",
      "DefaultIOAccounting":"",
      "DefaultIPAccounting":"",
      "DefaultLimitAS":"",
      "DefaultLimitCORE":"",
      "DefaultLimitCPU":"",
      "DefaultLimitDATA":"",
      "DefaultLimitFSIZE":"",
      "DefaultLimitLOCKS":"",
      "DefaultLimitMEMLOCK":"",
      "DefaultLimitMSGQUEUE":"",
      "DefaultLimitNICE":"",
      "DefaultLimitNOFILE":"",
      "DefaultLimitNPROC":"",
      "DefaultLimitRSS":"",
      "DefaultLimitRTPRIO":"",
      "DefaultLimitRTTIME":"",
      "DefaultLimitSIGPENDING":"",
      "DefaultLimitSTACK":"",
      "DefaultMemoryAccounting":"",
      "DefaultRestartSec":"",
      "DefaultStandardError":"",
      "DefaultStandardOutput":"",
      "DefaultStartLimitBurst":"",
      "DefaultStartLimitIntervalSec":"",
      "DefaultTasksAccounting":"",
      "DefaultTasksMax":"",
      "DefaultTimeoutStartSec":"",
      "DefaultTimeoutStopSec":"",
      "DefaultTimerAccuracySec":"",
      "DumpCore":"",
      "IPAddressAllow":"",
      "IPAddressDeny":"",
      "JoinControllers":"",
      "LogColor":"",
      "LogLevel":"",
      "LogLocation":"",
      "LogTarget":"",
      "RuntimeWatchdogSec":"",
      "ShowStatus":"",
      "ShutdownWatchdogSec":"",
      "SystemCallArchitectures":"",
      "TimerSlackNSec":""
   },
   "errors":""
}

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