Managing Plesk Servers

This chapter guides you through all the stages of management of Plesk servers: helps you to register your first Plesk server in Plesk Expand, provides detailed instructions on how you can administer this server, and tells you of many advantages of the centralized management of several Plesk servers from one point. Read this chapter to find out how you can manage Plesk servers with the help of the Plesk Expand control panel.

Plesk Expand is specially designed to allow you to monitor resources of all your Plesk servers from one centralized point. To make it possible, you need to first register these Plesk servers in Plesk Expand. As soon as the servers are registered, you may manage them as desired.

You can manage Plesk servers on the Server management page. This page can be accessed by selecting the Plesk Servers shortcut in the navigation pane.

The Servers management page displays a list of all Plesk servers registered in Plesk Expand. The list provides the following information:


Column Name	Description
NS (network status)	Represents a network status of the Plesk server:		The server is presently online.
			The server is presently offline.
ID	Shows an ID number of the Plesk server. The ID number is given to each Plesk server automatically after its registration in Plesk Expand and depends on the order of its registration. The first Plesk server registered in Plesk Expand gets ID number 1, the second registered server – ID number 2 and so on.
Name	Provides the name of the Plesk server.
Group	Provides the name of the group this Plesk server belongs to. For more information on server groups, see Managing Groups of Plesk Servers in Chapter 3. Managing Plesk Servers.
IP Address	Displays the default IP address of the Plesk server.
Plesk Clients	Shows a total number of the Plesk clients registered on the server.
Domains	Shows a total number of the domains hosted on the server.
Platform	Displays a version number of the Plesk server and the platform it operates on.
Keyword	Provides a signal word of the server. This keyword can be used for instant selection of this server while registering a new client, and for quicker identification of this server in the list.
L (login)		Allows you to log in to a desired Plesk server in the Plesk control panel as administrator. By clicking this icon you get straight to this Plesk server control panel which opens in the new browser window. Note: You will not be asked to enter login and password, as they have been provided during the registration of this Plesk server.

You can perform the following operations on this page:

To register a new Plesk server in Plesk Expand, click New Server.
To view the list of the available site application packages, click Application Vault.
To view summary reports on Plesk servers, click Reports.
To proceed to managing groups of Plesk servers, click Groups.
To proceed to managing Virtuozzo Hardware Nodes, click Virtuozzo HWN.
To manage Plesk Expand IP addresses, click IP Ranges.
To proceed to managing Plesk server license keys, click License Repository.
To proceed to the administration page of a certain Plesk server, click its name.
To sort Plesk servers by network status, select the corresponding status from the Net.status list (All, Unknown, Online or Offline) and click Search. To revert to the entire list of servers, click Show All.
To search for a particular server, enter its ID, name or keyword in the input fields provided, and click Search.
To reload a server (servers), select it (them) in the list and click Reload. You will be taken to the Reload Server(s) page where you can select which data should be reloaded. This option might be useful if any changes were made to a server or several servers in Plesk, and you wish to refresh (reload) the data yourself without having to wait for Plesk Expand to do that automatically.
Note: A server does not stop its operation during the reload.
To remove a Plesk server from the system, select the corresponding checkbox and click Remove Selected. A confirmation page will appear prior to removal.

Note: The server will be removed from the Plesk Expand system, but it will still be available through the Plesk control panel. The clients and domains hosted on this server, and the services installed on it will remain active too.

In This Chapter

Registering New Plesk Server in Plesk Expand

Using Plesk Expand Application Vault

Viewing Reports on Plesk Servers

Managing Groups of Plesk Servers

Managing Virtuozzo Hardware Nodes

Managing IP Ranges

Using Plesk License Repository

Administering Plesk Server

Assigning Plesk Server to Reseller

Reloading Plesk Servers

Removing Plesk Server from Plesk Expand