Adjusting Monitoring Preferences for Specific Services
To adjust preferences for specific services:
- Click Modules > Watchdog. A list of Plesk services will be displayed.
- Click on a service name. A page will open allowing you to specify the following settings:
- Monitoring. Toggle this to enable/disable service monitoring.
- The commands to start and stop the service. It is recommended that you leave the prefilled values unchanged.
- Minimum polling interval. It is recommended that you set it to something like 5-10 minutes so as not to increase server load.
- Restart service on stop. Select this to have the service automatically restarted when it stops or does not respond.
- Send an alert on stop. Select this if you wish to be informed of the service stop by e-mail.
- Send an alert when failed to restart the service. Select this and the module will inform you of failures to restart a non-responsive service.
- Stop monitoring this service if it fails. Select this check box and specify the failure ratio. The module will stop monitoring a service that fails a specific number of times.
- Alert on release of service from monitoring. Select this and the module will inform you by e-mail in case of permanent service failures.
- Alert message templates. You may wish to specify a recipient's address, sender's address, and message subject for each of the following service events: service failure, service start/stop failure, and release of service from monitoring due to its permanent failure.
- Once done configuring, click OK to submit the settings.