Built-in Direct methods of Azure IoT Edge Agent

Azure IoT Edge agent comes with below direct methods which we can use to control our modules inside the edge device

Restart Module

This will restart other modules running on the edge device

az iot hub invoke-module-method --method-name 'RestartModule' -n <hub name> -d <device name> -m '$edgeAgent' --method-payload 
'{ "schemaVersion": "1.0", "id": "<module name>" }'

also you can use the direct method option of the module and call the direct method with below parameters

DirectMethod Name : RestartModule
Parameter : 
{     
    "schemaVersion": "1.0",     
    "id": "<module name>" 
}

Ping

Ping command will check the module availability

az iot hub invoke-module-method — method-name ‘ping’ -n <hub name> -d <device name> -m ‘$edgeAgent’

also you can use the direct method option of the module and call the direct method with below parameters

DirectMethod Name : ping
Parameter : {}