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Other Replication Commands

Get a server’s ID as used by other endpoints of the replication HTTP interface

Get the replication server ID

GET http://<EXTERNAL_ENDPOINT>:8529/_db/:database-name/_api/replication/server-id

Returns the servers id. The id is also returned by other replication API methods, and this method is an easy means of determining a server’s id.

The body of the response is a JSON object with the attribute serverId. The server id is returned as a string.

Path Parameters

  • The name of the database.

    Example: _system

Query Parameters
    HTTP Headers
      Responses

      • is returned if the request was executed successfully.

      • is returned when an invalid HTTP method is used.

      • is returned if an error occurred while assembling the response.

      Examples

      curl --header 'accept: application/json' --dump - 'http://localhost:8529/_api/replication/server-id'
      Show output
      HTTP/1.1 200 OK
content-type: application/json
cache-control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0, s-maxage=0
connection: Keep-Alive
content-length: 30
content-security-policy: frame-ancestors 'self'; form-action 'self';
expires: 0
pragma: no-cache
server: ArangoDB
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 ; includeSubDomains
x-arango-queue-time-seconds: 0.000000
x-content-type-options: nosniff

{ 
  "serverId" : "114433185744346" 
}