diff --git a/docs/modules/development/pages/rest/ifservices.adoc b/docs/modules/development/pages/rest/ifservices.adoc
index 02a9d21c4667..6117328830fb 100644
--- a/docs/modules/development/pages/rest/ifservices.adoc
+++ b/docs/modules/development/pages/rest/ifservices.adoc
@@ -49,5 +49,5 @@ Mark the ICMP and HTTP services to be forced unmanaged for the nodes that belong
 
 [source, bash]
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-curl -u admin:admin -X PUT "status=F&services=ICMP,HTTP" "http://localhost:8980/opennms/rest/ifservices?category.name=Production"
+curl -u admin:admin -X PUT -d "status=F&services=ICMP,HTTP" "http://localhost:8980/opennms/rest/ifservices?category.name=Production"
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