About This Guide

Plesk for Linux Advanced Administration Guide is a companion guide for the Plesk Administrator's Guide. It is intended for server administrators whose responsibilities include maintaining hosting servers and troubleshooting server software problems.

The guide provides step-by-step instructions for performing server management tasks that require use of Plesk functionality other than the GUI and GUI-only tasks that administrators may need to perform only in rare and specific situations. Administrators can use several additional tools that are supplied in the standard Plesk distribution package to add customized automation tasks, back up and restore data, and repair Plesk components and system settings. The tools include a number of standalone applications, command-line utilities, and the ability to integrate custom scripting with Plesk.

This guide contains the following chapters: