Start snapshot lifecycle management
- POST /_slm/start
Snapshot lifecycle management (SLM) starts automatically when a cluster is formed. Manually starting SLM is necessary only if it has been stopped using the stop SLM API.
- Cluster privileges:
manage_slm
Query Parameters
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master_timeoutstring Duration · default: 30s The period to wait for a connection to the master node. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to
-1.-
timeoutstring Duration · default: 30s The period to wait for a response. If no response is received before the timeout expires, the request fails and returns an error. To indicate that the request should never timeout, set it to
-1.
Response
application/json
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acknowledgedbooleanrequired -
For a successful response, this value is always true. On failure, an exception is returned instead.