Managing Plesk Clients

This chapter guides you through all the stages of centralized management of Plesk clients. Read this chapter to learn how a Plesk client can be created and further managed in Plesk Expand.

As it was mentioned above, Plesk Expand allows you to control all clients located on all Plesk servers which are currently registered in Plesk Expand. The Plesk clients registered on each Plesk server are automatically migrated to Plesk Expand during the server registration process.

You can also create a new Plesk client on any desired Plesk server, either with the help of a client template or individually, per customer requirements. The Plesk server on which the Plesk client is created can be selected automatically depending on server resource usage issues. This helps to balance the workload on Plesk servers registered in Plesk Expand. After the creation, the client can be managed at your will.

You can manage all your clients on the Plesk Clients management page. You can get to this page by selecting the Plesk Clients shortcut in the navigation pane.

The Plesk Clients management page displays a list of all Plesk clients located on all Plesk servers currently registered in Plesk Expand.

The list provides the following information:


Column Name	Description
S (status)	Represents a status of a Plesk client:		The client is active.
			The client is presently deactivated.
ID	Shows an ID number of a Plesk client. The ID number is given to each client automatically after its creation (registration) and depends on the order of its creation. The first client created in Plesk Expand gets ID number 1, the second created – ID number 2 and so on.
Client Name	Provides a name of the Plesk client.
Company Name	Represents the name of the client's company.
Plesk Server	Displays the name of the Plesk server the client is registered on.
Creation Date	Shows the month, date and year of the client creation.
Domains	Indicates the total number of the domains the Plesk client possesses.
L (login)		Allows you to log in to a desired Plesk client in the Plesk control panel as administrator. It takes you straight to this client on the Plesk server this client resides. The Plesk control panel opens in a separate browser window. Note: 1. Only administrator can use this function. 2. You will not be asked to enter login and password, as they were provided during registration of the Plesk server this Plesk client resides on.

You can perform the following operations on this page:

To create a new Plesk client in Plesk Expand, click New Plesk Client.
To create and manage client templates, click Client Templates.
To proceed to the administration page of a certain Plesk client, click its name in the list.
To deactivate a Plesk client, select it in the list and click Disable. The client is deactivated immediately.
To activate a Plesk client, select it in the list and click Enable. The client gets activated immediately.
Note: You may also click the status icon ( or ) in the S column to change the status of a client.
To sort Plesk clients by status, select the corresponding status from the Status drop-down box (Show all, Active or Disabled) and click Search. To revert to the entire list of clients, click Show All.
To search for a certain Plesk client in the list, enter the ID of this client, client name, company name, or the server name in the fields provided, and click Search.
To reload a Plesk client, select a corresponding checkbox and click Reload. This takes you to the Reload Client(s) page where you can select which data should be reloaded. This option might be useful if you made any changes to a Plesk client or several Plesk clients in Plesk control panel and you wish to refresh (or reload) these clients' information, without having to wait for Plesk Expand to do that automatically.
Note: The Plesk client does not stop its operation during the reload.
To remove a Plesk client, select a corresponding checkbox and click Remove Selected. A confirmation page appears prior to removal.

Note: When you remove a Plesk client from Plesk Expand, it is removed both from Plesk Expand and the Plesk server it is registered on.