Managing Service Nodes

Task	Details
View versions of components managed by Plesk.	CloudBlue Commerce and the WebHosting Plesk module rely on Plesk for managing the services running on hosting service nodes. To view the components and services running on the node: Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Server Components. To learn more about Plesk, visit https://www.plesk.com/ and https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/about-plesk.70559/.
Install or update a license for Plesk on a service node.	For details, refer to the section Installing Plesk License Keys.
Update or upgrade Plesk and its components.	To update or upgrade Plesk and its components, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Updates and Upgrades. To learn more about the update and upgrade options, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-updates-and-upgrades/plesk-updates.70989/. Important: After upgrading Plesk components, especially PHP, you must do the following: Update the information about the installed components in WebHosting Plesk. Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab, select the checkbox next to the IP address column heading, and click Refresh. If you upgraded the PHP version on a service node, you need to edit every service template that used this version. Go to Products > Service Templates > template name > Hosting Parameters tab > Edit, and select either the newly installed PHP version or the option Run PHP as: the latest PHP version available. Click Save. Go to the Synchronization tab of each service template that you edited in step 2 (in Products > Service Templates > template name > Synchronization), select the subscriptions to which you want to apply the changes, and click Synchronize.
Configure the firewall (only on Windows)	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Firewall. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-administration/the-plesk-firewall-windows.64951/
Configure IP address banning (Fail2Ban) to protect the web servers against network attacks, only on Linux	Automatically bans incoming connections from IP addresses and networks that generate malicious traffic directed at the hosting node. It is installed, but switched off by default. To manage the service, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > IP Address Banning (Fail2Ban). To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/protection-against-brute-force-attacks-fail2ban.73381/.
Configure Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity), which provides protection against a wide range of attacks directed at web applications.	To manage the service, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity). To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/web-application-firewall-modsecurity.73383/.
View information about the users logged in to Plesk and to the FTP server.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Active Plesk Sessions and Active FTP Sessions. https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/statistics-and-monitoring/monitoring-connections-to-plesk.59246/
Configure the structure of the virtual host template if you want to include certain directories or files into all newly created websites.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Virtual Host Template. https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-hosting/website-directory-structure.68695/
Send mass email messages to customers.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Mass Email Messages. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/mass-email-notifications.59283/
Back up and restore customers' data.	For details, refer to the section Backing Up and Restoring Customer Webspaces.
Run scripts on a node at a specific time by using task scheduler (cron).	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Scheduled Tasks. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/scheduling-tasks.64993/
Track event in the system with Event Manager.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Event Manager. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/event-tracking.59205/
Adjust system date and time.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > System Time.
Optimize Apache web server settings by switching off modules.	To manage the Apache web server settings on hosting nodes, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Apache Web Server. To learn more, visit http://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-servers/apache-web-server-linux/optimizing-apache-web-server.72074/.
Manage IIS web server and IIS application pool.	To manage IIS web server settings on Windows-based hosting nodes, use the native IIS Manager application on the Windows server. You can manage IIS application pool in Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > IIS Application Pool and web server settings for selected sites in Customer Panel > Websites & Domains > IIS Web Server Settings. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-servers/iis-web-server-windows.71995/.
Configure the PHP handlers that should be available to customers.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > PHP Settings. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-hosting/php-management/configuring-php-handlers.75149/
View information about the service node usage: CPU load, memory, and disk space.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Server Information.
Stop, start, and restart the services running on the node.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Services Management.
Restart the service node.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Restart Server.
View the statistics on bandwidth usage by customers and websites.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Statistics group.
View the number of websites hosted on service nodes.	Go to Provider Panel > Infrastructure > Service Nodes > node's host name > General tab.
Set up the mail service settings, mail relay, limitations on outgoing email messages, spam protection based on SPF checking and DNS BL.	To configure the global settings of the mail services, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Mail Server Settings. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/configuring-serverwide-mail-settings.59430/.
Configure an external SMTP server (only on Windows).	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > External SMTP Server. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/using-plesk-without-the-mail-server.72346/
Set up the protection from viruses and malware.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Antivirus. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/antivirus-software.59437/
Set up the protection from spam.	To manage the settings of the SpamAssassin spam filter, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Spam Filter. To learn more about SpamAssassin configuration, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/antispam-tools/spamassassin-spam-filter.59432/. In addition to SpamAssassin, there are also spam preventions tools based on DomainKeys, DNS blackhole lists, and Sender Policy Framework (SPF). You can configure these tools in Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Mail Server Settings. To learn more about them, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/antispam-tools.59431/.
Enable or disable the Horde and Roundcube webmail services.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Webmail. To learn more, visit http://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/webmail-software.66411/.
Manage APS web applications: install, configure, update, and remove app packages.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Application Vault. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/web-applications/application-vault.68933/
Configure and manage the database servers used by the hosting node.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Database Servers. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/database-servers/adding-and-removing-database-servers.59428/
Install and configure ODBC drivers (only on Windows)	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > ODBC Data Sources. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/database-servers/connecting-to-external-databases-windows.60317/
ASP.NET Settings (only on Windows)	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > ASP.NET Settings. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-hosting/configuring-aspnet-windows.60322/
Track actions performed by users in Plesk.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Action Log. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/statistics-and-monitoring/action-logs.59223/
Manage multiple WordPress installations on websites with WordPress Toolkit.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > WordPress in the left navigation pane. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-administration/wordpress-toolkit-in-plesk.73563/
Deploy and manage applications based on Docker images.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Docker in the left navigation pane. To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-administration/using-docker.75823/
Submit a request for technical assistance to the Plesk support team.	Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Support.

View versions of components managed by Plesk.

CloudBlue Commerce and the WebHosting Plesk module rely on Plesk for managing the services running on hosting service nodes.

To view the components and services running on the node: Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Server Components.

To learn more about Plesk, visit https://www.plesk.com/ and https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/about-plesk.70559/.

Install or update a license for Plesk on a service node.

For details, refer to the section Installing Plesk License Keys.

Update or upgrade Plesk and its components.

To update or upgrade Plesk and its components, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Updates and Upgrades.

To learn more about the update and upgrade options, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-updates-and-upgrades/plesk-updates.70989/.

Important: After upgrading Plesk components, especially PHP, you must do the following:

Update the information about the installed components in WebHosting Plesk. Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab, select the checkbox next to the IP address column heading, and click Refresh.
If you upgraded the PHP version on a service node, you need to edit every service template that used this version. Go to Products > Service Templates > template name > Hosting Parameters tab > Edit, and select either the newly installed PHP version or the option Run PHP as: the latest PHP version available. Click Save.
Go to the Synchronization tab of each service template that you edited in step 2 (in Products > Service Templates > template name > Synchronization), select the subscriptions to which you want to apply the changes, and click Synchronize.

Configure the firewall (only on Windows)

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Firewall.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-administration/the-plesk-firewall-windows.64951/

Configure IP address banning (Fail2Ban) to protect the web servers against network attacks, only on Linux

Automatically bans incoming connections from IP addresses and networks that generate malicious traffic directed at the hosting node.

It is installed, but switched off by default.

To manage the service, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > IP Address Banning (Fail2Ban).

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/protection-against-brute-force-attacks-fail2ban.73381/.

Configure Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity), which provides protection against a wide range of attacks directed at web applications.

To manage the service, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Web Application Firewall (ModSecurity).

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/web-application-firewall-modsecurity.73383/.

View information about the users logged in to Plesk and to the FTP server.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Active Plesk Sessions and Active FTP Sessions.

https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/statistics-and-monitoring/monitoring-connections-to-plesk.59246/

Configure the structure of the virtual host template if you want to include certain directories or files into all newly created websites.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Virtual Host Template.

https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-hosting/website-directory-structure.68695/

Send mass email messages to customers.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Mass Email Messages.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/mass-email-notifications.59283/

Back up and restore customers' data.

For details, refer to the section Backing Up and Restoring Customer Webspaces.

Run scripts on a node at a specific time by using task scheduler (cron).

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Scheduled Tasks.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/scheduling-tasks.64993/

Track event in the system with Event Manager.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Event Manager.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/event-tracking.59205/

Adjust system date and time.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > System Time.

Optimize Apache web server settings by switching off modules.

To manage the Apache web server settings on hosting nodes, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Apache Web Server.

To learn more, visit http://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-servers/apache-web-server-linux/optimizing-apache-web-server.72074/.

Manage IIS web server and IIS application pool.

To manage IIS web server settings on Windows-based hosting nodes, use the native IIS Manager application on the Windows server.

You can manage IIS application pool in Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > IIS Application Pool and web server settings for selected sites in Customer Panel > Websites & Domains > IIS Web Server Settings.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-servers/iis-web-server-windows.71995/.

Configure the PHP handlers that should be available to customers.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > PHP Settings.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-hosting/php-management/configuring-php-handlers.75149/

View information about the service node usage: CPU load, memory, and disk space.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Server Information.

Stop, start, and restart the services running on the node.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Services Management.

Restart the service node.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Restart Server.

View the statistics on bandwidth usage by customers and websites.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Statistics group.

View the number of websites hosted on service nodes.

Go to Provider Panel > Infrastructure > Service Nodes > node's host name > General tab.

Set up the mail service settings, mail relay, limitations on outgoing email messages, spam protection based on SPF checking and DNS BL.

To configure the global settings of the mail services, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Mail Server Settings.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/configuring-serverwide-mail-settings.59430/.

Configure an external SMTP server (only on Windows).

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > External SMTP Server.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/using-plesk-without-the-mail-server.72346/

Set up the protection from viruses and malware.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Antivirus.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/antivirus-software.59437/

Set up the protection from spam.

To manage the settings of the SpamAssassin spam filter, go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Spam Filter.

To learn more about SpamAssassin configuration, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/antispam-tools/spamassassin-spam-filter.59432/.

In addition to SpamAssassin, there are also spam preventions tools based on DomainKeys, DNS blackhole lists, and Sender Policy Framework (SPF). You can configure these tools in Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Mail Server Settings.

To learn more about them, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/antispam-tools.59431/.

Enable or disable the Horde and Roundcube webmail services.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Webmail.

To learn more, visit http://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/mail/webmail-software.66411/.

Manage APS web applications: install, configure, update, and remove app packages.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Application Vault.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/server-administration/web-applications/application-vault.68933/

Configure and manage the database servers used by the hosting node.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Database Servers.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/database-servers/adding-and-removing-database-servers.59428/

Install and configure ODBC drivers (only on Windows)

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > ODBC Data Sources.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/database-servers/connecting-to-external-databases-windows.60317/

ASP.NET Settings (only on Windows)

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > ASP.NET Settings.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/web-hosting/configuring-aspnet-windows.60322/

Track actions performed by users in Plesk.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Action Log.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/statistics-and-monitoring/action-logs.59223/

Manage multiple WordPress installations on websites with WordPress Toolkit.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > WordPress in the left navigation pane.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-administration/wordpress-toolkit-in-plesk.73563/

Deploy and manage applications based on Docker images.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Docker in the left navigation pane.

To learn more, visit https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/administrator-guide/plesk-administration/using-docker.75823/

Submit a request for technical assistance to the Plesk support team.

Go to Provider Panel > Services > WebHosting Plesk > Service Nodes tab > Tools and Settings (in the Actions column) > Support.