Sets default server-wide parameters.

Requires -locale, -skin, -template options in any combinations.

To set Plesk default locale to English (United States) and default skin to Aqua Compact:

or

To view the list of available interface languages (locales):

To view the list of available skins:

To view the list of available interface customization templates:

To set the host name to host.example.com:

To see the currently configured server preferences:

Set up the CPU usage settings of the default shared IIS application pool.

Used with the options: -cpu-usage-state, -cpu-usage-value, -cpu-usage-action, -cpu-usage-interval.

To set up the following CPU usage settings for the default shared IIS application pool:

• limit CPU usage by worker processes to 10%,

• reduce CPU time for processes if they have exceeded the limit:

  plesk bin server_pref.exe --set-iis-app-pool-settings -cpu-usage-state true -cpu-usage-value 10 -cpu-usage-action Throttle

Loads default Plesk settings from Plesk Partner Central and saves them to /opt/psa/admin/conf/customizations.conf.

When you have several Plesk servers, it may be convenient to customize Plesk setting once through Partner Central and then download the settings to each Plesk server.

To load customization settings from Plesk Partner Central:

To turn on the web application firewall and select the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) rule set:

To view the web application firewall settings:

or

To set port 50000 for passive FTP connections:

Sets the default interface language for Plesk interface.

The argument of the option must be a valid four-letter language code derived from the language code described in ISO-639-2 and the corresponding country code described in ISO-3166.

For example, the Plesk code for the Italian language code is it-IT; the Plesk code for the American variant of English is en-US; the Plesk code for the British variant of English is en-GB.

Used with the --set-default only.

To set the default interface language for Plesk administrator’s interface to Italian:

Sets the default interface skin for Plesk interface.

Used with the --set-default only.

To set the skin WinXP Olivegreen as the default skin:

Sets the default interface customization template to Plesk interface.

Used with the --set-default only.

To apply customization template Interface Customization Template to administrator’s control panel interface:

To set the host name to host.example.com:

To enable including log files in the disk space usage calculation:

To count MySQL databases disk space in the overall statistics:

To count Microsoft SQL databases disk space in the overall statistics:

To enable including remote MySQL databases in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including mailboxes in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including mailing lists in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including domain backup files in the disk space usage calculation:

To enable including backup files created by the Administrator in the disk space usage calculation:

Limits the number of months to retain traffic statistics.

Is 3 by default.

To retain traffic statistics for 6 months:

Specifies a type of calculating traffic. The following types are available:

• inbound and outbound (both)
• inbound (in)
• outbound (out)

To include only outbound traffic in the traffic calculation:

Enables/Disables adding database owner login name (customer or reseller) to database names as prefix <<client|reseller>_login>_.

Is false by default.

To enable creating databases with names <customer|reseller login>_<database name>:

Enables/Disables adding database owner login name (customer or reseller) to database user names as prefix <<client|reseller>_login>_.

Is false by default.

To enable creating database users with names <customer|reseller login>_<database user name>:

To limit database user name to 25 characters:

Allows/Prohibits having several simultaneous sessions under administrator’s login.

Deprecated, use admin utility instead.

To allow multiple sessions under administrator’s login:

To enable running scheduled backup processes with low priority:

Sets the compression level for your backups and those created by customers and resellers.

You can specify the following compression levels: fastest, fast, normal, maximum, or no compression. The faster the compression level, the bigger the backup size and the lower CPU load is.

By default, Plesk uses fast compression.

To set the maximum compression level in the server backup settings (the smallest backup size, the slowest backup speed, the highest CPU load):

To restrict the maximum number of simultaneously running scheduled backup processes to 5:

To make Plesk work with APS Catalog accessible by the URL http://apscatalog.com:

Turns on force automatic updates for all installed applications.

Users will be unable to turn off the updates.

To set force updates for all installed applications:

Turns on automatic updates for all newly installed applications. If true, the option “Automatically update this app” will be turned on by default in the settings of each newly installed app.

Users will be able to turn the updates off unless the force updates are turned on by the Administrator.

To set automatic updates turned off by default for newly installed applications:

To configure the IIS Application pool assignment and placement policy to shared.

Turns on and off the 32-bit mode for the IIS application pool.

Is false by default.

Used with the --update and --set-iis-app-pool-settings commands.

To turn on the 32-bit mode for the IIS application pool:

To set the maximum number of worker processes permitted to service requests for IIS application pool to 5:

To set the amount of time a worker process will remain idle before it shuts down to 5 minutes:

To configure ASP.NET to run in classic mode:

Disables/Enables users to create DNS subzones in other users’ DNS superzones.

Is false by default.

To prohibit users from creating DNS subzones in other user’s DNS superzones:

Hides from Control Panel all controls related to managing e-mail services and adding new mail accounts.

This option does not actually switch off the Plesk-managed mail server, but only removes the following items from the Control Panel accessed by hosting service customers and their users:

• Mail tab.
• Home tab > Mail group.

Users tab > user name > Create an e-mail address under your account option.

To hide from Control Panel all mail-related controls:

To set up CPU usage settings for the default shared IIS application pool:

Specifies the maximum percentage of CPU time that worker processes in an application pool are allowed to consume over a period of time (the -cpu-usage-interval option).

If the limit is exceeded, the event is written to the event log and an optional set of events can be triggered. These optional events are determined by the -cpu-usage-action option.

<NoAction|KillW3wp|

Throttle|

ThrottleUnderLoad>

Specifies the action that IIS takes when a worker process exceeds the limit on CPU time usage.

• NoAction - no action is taken when the CPU limit is exceeded. A warning is written to the event log.
• KillW3wp - processes that exceed their CPU limit will be forced to shut down.
• Throttle - reduce the CPU consumption to the value set for limit (available only on IIS 8).
• ThrottleUndeaLoad - reduce the CPU consumption to the value set for the limit, but only if there are other processes that demand CPU time (available only on IIS 8).

Specifies the reset interval for monitoring of CPU usage by worker processes.

Is not used for Throttle and ThrottleUnderLoad actions.

Sets the domain name example.com for the site preview function:

To turn on the password protection for website preview:

To turn on the support for the subdomain zones:

To include the password into the settings files:

To turn on automatic updates for Plesk:

Sets an email address that will receive notifications about installed Plesk updates.

Requires the --update command.

To send email notifications about installed Plesk updates to mail@example.com:

To forbid automatic installation of updates for third-party components:

To set the “Strong” level of the password strength for user passwords:

To forbid customers to change the system user name:

Forbids customers and resellers to change the name of the main domain in their subscriptions. By default, the main domain name is the same as the subscription name.

Note that Plesk administrators can modify subscription names even if this option is true.

By default, for example, after Plesk upgrading or on new Plesk installations, this option is false.

To forbid customers and resellers to change the name of the main domain on their subscriptions:

To grant the ALTER DATABASE permission to all Microsoft SQL Server database users:

To enable the db_backupoperator role membership for all Microsoft SQL Server database users:

To switch off automatic upgrade of Plesk extensions:

disabled|enabled|

required

Sets up FTPS to protect communication between the FTP server and external FTP clients using SSL/TLS protocol.

To allow only secure FTPS connections, use required.

To allow both FTP and FTPS, use enabled.

To allow only secure FTPS connections:

To set the URL opening at the press of the Support button to http://example.com:

Allows or forbids the use of Plesk server as an FTP storage for Plesk backups.

If users configure backups for their Plesk accounts to go to their own FTP directories on the same Plesk server, the amount of used disk space will double upon creation of each backup. This can eventually run the server out of free disk space. To prevent this, we recommend that you use this option so as not to allow the use of Plesk server as an FTP storage for Plesk backups.

To prevent users from configuring Plesk so as to save backups to FTP directories on the same server:

To limit the number of backups users are allowed to have to 5:

To allow storing backups in the local storage if upload to FTP fails:

To secure Plesk with the SSL/TLS certificate  cert1:

Specifies the domain of the SSL/TLS certificate repository. By default, the server repository is used.

This option is used with the option -panel-certificate.

To secure Plesk with the SSL/TLS certificate  cert3 that is stored at the repository of the domain  example.net:

To enable Central Certificate Store support on the server using the password certpass for encrypting certificates, configure the network share \CERTSTOREstorage as the location for the Central Certificate Store, and set up authentication using the username store_user and the password store_pass:

Specifies the web application firewall (ModSecurity) mode.

Used with the --update-web-app-firewall command.

To turn on the web application firewall and select the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set (CRS) rule set:

Specifies the rule set used by the web application firewall (ModSecurity).

Used with the --update-web-app-firewall command.

To turn on the web application firewall and select the “Atomic Standard (free, can be upgraded to Atomic Advanced)” ModSecurity rule set:

To turn on the web application firewall and select a custom rule set:

To turn on the web application firewall and update rule sets weekly:

To turn on the web application firewall and select the “Tradeoff” set of values: