diff --git a/watcher/applier/actions/change_nova_service_state.py b/watcher/applier/actions/change_nova_service_state.py
index e7bea1e7f..c557a5a9b 100644
--- a/watcher/applier/actions/change_nova_service_state.py
+++ b/watcher/applier/actions/change_nova_service_state.py
@@ -39,10 +39,8 @@ class ChangeNovaServiceState(base.BaseAction):
          'disabled_reason': str,
         })
 
-    The `resource_id` references a nova-compute service name (list of available
-    nova-compute services is returned by this command: ``nova service-list
-    --binary nova-compute``).
-    The `state` value should either be `ONLINE` or `OFFLINE`.
+    The `resource_id` references a nova-compute service name.
+    The `state` value should either be `up` or `down`.
     The `disabled_reason` references the reason why Watcher disables this
     nova-compute service. The value should be with `watcher_` prefix, such as
     `watcher_disabled`, `watcher_maintaining`.
diff --git a/watcher/applier/actions/migration.py b/watcher/applier/actions/migration.py
index 781f378cd..d94bfaeda 100644
--- a/watcher/applier/actions/migration.py
+++ b/watcher/applier/actions/migration.py
@@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ class Migrate(base.BaseAction):
 
     The `resource_id` is the UUID of the server to migrate.
     The `source_node` and `destination_node` parameters are respectively the
-    source and the destination compute hostname (list of available compute
-    hosts is returned by this command: ``nova service-list --binary
-    nova-compute``).
+    source and the destination compute hostname.
 
     .. note::