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Soft-reboot a Server

An MCP tool from the Hetzner Cloud API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Soft-reboot a Server Reboots a Server gracefully by sending an ACPI request. The Server operating system must support ACPI and react to the request, otherwise the Server will not reboot. [POST /servers/{id}/actions/reboot]

Name on the gateway: hetzner_api__reboot_server · may change things.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
id requiredintegerID of the Server.

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "hetzner_api__reboot_server",
  "arguments": {
    "id": 0
  }
}

Or connect the Hetzner Cloud API server directly, which lists 178 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-hetzner-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/hetzner-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

Use the soft-reboot a server tool with id set to ….

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