Starting, Stopping and Restarting Services
You can monitor, start, stop, restart and disable various Parallels Plesk Panel services, and also change their startup type from the control panel (available only for Windows hosting).
To see the status of a service:
- Go to Home > Services Management (in the Server group).
- 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:
means that the service or all services in a group are running,
means that the service or all services in a group are stopped,
means that several services in a group are running and some are stopped,
means that the service is not installed or its management capabilities are not supported by the license key.- In the Startup Type field you can see whether the service is started automatically or should be started manually.
To start a service:
- Go to Home > Services Management (in the Server group).
- Click the
icon corresponding to the service you wish to start.
To restart a service:
- Go to Home > Services Management (in the Server group).
- Click the
icon corresponding to the service you wish to restart.
To stop a service:
- Go to Home > Services Management (in the Server group).
- Click the
icon corresponding to the service you wish to stop.
To set service startup type:
- Go to Home > Services Management (in the Server group).
- Select the check box corresponding to the required service in the list.
- Select the required startup type:
- Click
Manual to start selected services manually upon Parallels Plesk Panel startup. - Click
Auto to start selected services automatically upon Parallels Plesk Panel startup.
To disable a service:
- Go to Home > Services Management (in the Server group).
- Select the check box corresponding to the required service in the list.
- Click
Disable.
To make changes to a group of services:
- Go to Home > Services Management (in the Server group).
- Select the check boxes 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
Disable to disable selected services. - Click
Manual to start selected services manually upon Parallels Plesk Panel startup. - Click
Auto to start selected services automatically upon Parallels Plesk Panel startup.