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title: Administrative actions
description: Administrative actions that the PingDirectory and PingDirectoryProxy servers return in Configuration API responses when a property update requires further changes to take effect.
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---

# Administrative actions

Updating a property might require an administrative action before changes can take effect.

If you need administrative actions to update a property, the server returns `200 Success`. Any actions are returned in the `urn:unboundid:schemas:configuration:messages:2.0` section of the JSON response that represents the entire object that was created or modified.

## Example

For example, changing the `jeProperty` of a backend results in the following:

```
"urn:unboundid:schemas:configuration:messages:2.0": {
    "required-actions": [
      {
       "property": "baseContextPath",
       "type": "componentRestart",
       "synopsis": "In order for this modification to take effect, the component
                  must be restarted, either by disabling and re-enabling it, or
                  by restarting the server"
      },
      {
        "property": {
        "type": "other",
        "synopsis": "If this limit is increased, then the
                 contents of the backend must be exported to LDIF
                 and re-imported to allow the new limit to be used
                 for any id2children keys that had already hit the
                 previous limit."
      }
    ]
  }
```