power-on-server.md

{{{ "title": "Power On Server", "date": "11-19-2014", "author": "Bryan Friedman", "attachments": [] }}}

Sends the power on operation to a list of servers and adds operation to queue. (See Description of Server Group Power Commands for details on how the power off operation is used.) Calls to this operation must include a token acquired from the authentication endpoint. See the Login API for information on acquiring this token.

When to Use It

Use this API operation when you want to power on a single server or group of servers. It should be used in conjunction with the Get Status operation to check the result of the power on command.

URL

Structure

POST https://api.ctl.io/v2/operations/{accountAlias}/servers/powerOn

Example

POST https://api.ctl.io/v2/operations/ALIAS/servers/powerOn

Request

URI Parameters

Name	Type	Description	Req.
AccountAlias	string	Short code for a particular account	Yes

Content Properties

Name	Type	Description	Req.
serverIds	array	List of server IDs to perform power on operation on.	Yes

Examples

JSON

[
   "WA1ALIASWB01",
   "WA1ALIASWB02"
]

Response

The response will be an array containing one entity for each server that the operation was performed on.

Entity Definition

Name	Type	Description
server	string	ID of the server that the operation was performed on.
isQueued	boolean	Boolean indicating whether the operation was successfully added to the queue.
array	complex	Collection of [entity links](../Getting Started/api-v20-links-framework.md) that point to resources related to this server operation.
errorMessage	string	If something goes wrong or the request is not queued, this is the message that contains the details about what happened.

Examples

JSON

[
  {
    "server":"wa1aliaswb01",
    "isQueued":true,
    "links":[
      {
        "rel":"status",
        "href":"/v2/operations/alias/status/wa1-12345",
        "id":"wa1-12345"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "server":"wa1aliaswb02",
    "isQueued":false,
    "errorMessage":"The operation cannot be queued because the server cannot be found or it is not in a valid state."
  }
]