This is documentation for Plesk 12.5.
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System Services
You can monitor, start, stop, restart and disable various services, and also change their startup type from Plesk (on Windows-based servers).
To see the status of a system service:
- Go to Tools & Settings > Services Management.
- Click Show All to show all services from the service groups. To hide all services, click Hide All. The current state of a service or a group of services is marked by an icon:
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means that the service or all services in a group are running,
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means that the service or all services in a group are stopped,
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means that several services in a group are running and some are stopped by the license key.
- In the Startup Type field you can see whether the service is started automatically or should be started manually.
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To start a service:
- Go to Tools & Settings > Services Management.
- Click the
icon corresponding to the service you wish to start.
To restart a service:
- Go to Tools & Settings > Services Management.
- Click the
icon corresponding to the service you wish to restart.
To stop a service:
- Go to Tools & Settings > Services Management.
- Click the
icon corresponding to the service you wish to stop.
To set service startup type (on Windows-based servers):
- Go to Tools & Settings > Services Management.
- Select the checkbox corresponding to the required service in the list.
- Select the required startup type:
- Click Manual to start selected services manually upon the Plesk startup.
- Click Auto to start selected services automatically upon the Plesk startup.
To disable a service:
- Go to Tools & Settings > Services Management.
- Select the checkbox corresponding to the required service in the list.
- Click Switch Off.
To make changes to a group of services:
- Go to Tools & Settings > Services Management.
- Select the checkboxes corresponding to the required services in the list.
- Click the button corresponding to the action you want to perform on the selected services:
- Click Start to start selected services.
- Click Stop to stop selected services.
- Click Restart to restart selected services.
- Click Switch Off to disable selected services.
- Click Manual to start selected services manually upon the Plesk startup.
- Click Auto to start selected services automatically upon the Plesk startup.