Restart

Restart a systemd service on a target host. Always returns changed: true because the service is restarted regardless of its current state:

$ osapi client node service restart --target web-01 \
    --name nginx.service

  Job ID: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

  HOSTNAME  STATUS   NAME             CHANGED
  web-01    changed  nginx.service    true

  1 host: 1 changed

Broadcast restart to all hosts:

$ osapi client node service restart --target _all \
    --name nginx.service

  Job ID: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

  HOSTNAME  STATUS   NAME             CHANGED
  web-01    changed  nginx.service    true
  web-02    changed  nginx.service    true

  2 hosts: 2 changed

When some hosts are skipped (e.g., macOS agents):

$ osapi client node service restart --target _all \
    --name nginx.service

  Job ID: 550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

  HOSTNAME  STATUS   NAME             CHANGED
  web-01    changed  nginx.service    true
  mac-01    skip

  2 hosts: 1 changed, 1 skipped

  Details:
  mac-01    unsupported platform

JSON Output

Use --json to get the full API response:

$ osapi client node service restart --target web-01 \
    --name nginx.service --json
{"results":[{"hostname":"web-01","name":"nginx.service","changed":true,"status":"ok"}],"job_id":"..."}

Flags

Flag	Description	Default
--name	Service name to restart	required
-T, --target	Target: _any, _all, hostname, or label (group:web)	_any
-j, --json	Output raw JSON response