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actions: Fix device's Restart Services action being Restart Fleet
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flowzone-app[bot] authored Nov 6, 2024
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[Fleet members][fleet-members] with the Operator role and above can perform any of the actions or settings listed below.

### Restart Fleet
### Restart Services

The `Restart Fleet` action restarts the currently running **services** for all devices in your fleet. Your fleet's running containers will be removed and recreated from scratch. This behavior is intended and is different from running `balena restart [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]` in a host OS terminal instance from your dashboard, which will not remove your containers. If you are trying to persist data between container removals, see [persistent storage][persistent-storage] for strategies.
The `Restart Services` action restarts the currently running **services** for all devices in your fleet. Your fleet's running containers will be removed and recreated from scratch. This behavior is intended and is different from running `balena restart [OPTIONS] CONTAINER [CONTAINER...]` in a host OS terminal instance from your dashboard, which will not remove your containers. If you are trying to persist data between container removals, see [persistent storage][persistent-storage] for strategies.

By removing containers and recreating them from scratch, we see benefits like the following:

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### Reboot

This action allows you to perform a reboot on your devices. This is different from the `Restart Fleet` action mentioned above. With this action, the entire device, including the kernel, will be rebooted as if there was a power cycle. It should be noted that currently these action notifications are not queued up, so if a device is offline when the action is triggered, it will never be notified of the action it missed.
This action allows you to perform a reboot on your devices. This is different from the `Restart Services` action mentioned above. With this action, the entire device, including the kernel, will be rebooted as if there was a power cycle. It should be noted that currently these action notifications are not queued up, so if a device is offline when the action is triggered, it will never be notified of the action it missed.

__Warning:__ This action is only supported on devices with an Agent version >= 1.1.0

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