Understanding the Plesk Daily Maintenance Script and Tasks

The Plesk Daily Maintenance script automates crucial maintenance tasks for your Plesk server, running once per day to keep your system secure, optimized, and up to date. This guide explains what the script does, its associated tasks, and how to manually execute specific maintenance tasks as needed.

What is the Plesk Daily Maintenance Script?

The Plesk Daily Maintenance script performs a variety of automated tasks essential to maintaining your server's health and performance. Administrators receive daily email notifications with details about the script's execution. These notifications reference specific files depending on your server's OS:

• RHEL-based Linux OS: /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php
• Debian-based Linux OS: /opt/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php
• Windows Server OS: %plesk_dir%\admin\plib\DailyMaintainance\script.php

What Tasks Does the Daily Maintenance Script Perform?

The Plesk Daily Maintenance script covers a range of essential maintenance functions that help ensure server performance, stability, and security. Key tasks include:

• Checking for Plesk updates - Ensures the latest features and security patches are available.
• Installing updates - Automatically installs Plesk and system package updates as needed.
• Updating license keys - Verifies and refreshes your Plesk license keys.
• Calculating statistics - Gathers data on server usage and performance.
• Updating the application catalog cache - Keeps application data current.
• Log rotation - Manages log files to prevent disk space issues.

Each of these tasks is crucial for maintaining your server's efficiency and security. The tasks can also be run separately if needed.

How to Run Plesk Daily Maintenance Tasks Separately on Linux

1. Log into the Server via SSH
   Use SSH to connect to your server:

   ssh [username]@[server_ip]

   Replace [username] with your SSH username and [server_ip] with the IP address of your server.
2. List All Available Daily Maintenance Tasks
   To see all tasks that can be executed individually, use the following command:

   plesk daily -l

   This command will display a list of all available maintenance tasks, including:

   
   ReportTrialAgreement
   ReportProductAgreement
   UpgradePanel
   CheckForUpdates
   InstallUpdates
   InstallSystemPackageUpdates
   UpdateKeys
   CheckDomainsResolve
   PleskUsage
   Sitebuilder
   MailUsage
   ExecuteStatistics
   ProcessAutoreports
   OptimizeStatistics
   AnalyseDomainStatistics
   AnalyseClientStatistics
   ExecuteSpamtrain
   RemoveSpamTempFiles
   LoadCustomizations
   UpdateApsCache
   UpdateApsApplications
   UpgradeExtensions
   ExecuteGlCleaner
   StoreProtectedConfigs
   ExecuteWebStatistics
   UpdateModSecurityRuleSet
   AutoresponderEndDate
   CheckPostponedFeedback
   SearchIndex
   CleanupPanelNotifications
   ReportUsage
   UpdatePhpCurlCertificates
   BackupRestoreStats
   ComposerSelfUpdate
           

3. Run a Specific Maintenance Task
   To execute a particular task, use the following command format, replacing TaskName with the desired task. For example, to run only the Web Statistics task:

   plesk daily -f ExecuteWebStatistics

   Substitute ExecuteWebStatistics with any task name from the list above to run that task individually.

Note

Running these tasks individually is useful when troubleshooting or testing specific maintenance operations. Make sure to consult the latest Plesk documentation for task compatibility with your server configuration.

Disclaimer

Always test changes in a staging environment before applying them to a live server. Confirm compatibility with your specific Plesk and OS version, and refer to Plesk's official documentation as needed.