Setting Up and Starting Watchdog Services

After you install the Watchdog component, you should configure the settings common for all Watchdog services, and then switch on each specific type of service you need.

To configure Watchdog settings common for all services:

  1. Click the Extensions shortcut in the navigation pane > Watchdog. A list of Plesk services will be displayed.
  2. Click the Preferences icon in the Tools group.
  3. Specify the following settings:
  4. Click Apply to submit the settings.

You have specified the general settings, and now you can further customize and run the Watchdog services you need: Monitoring of system services and monitoring of disk space usage require fine tuning before you can start them, however, regular security scanning requires no additional setup and therefore will start immediately after you have specified the general settings. By default, security scanning is started at 2 a.m. local time at the beginning of the specified time period.

Next in this section:

Setting Up and Starting Monitoring of System Services

Setting Up and Starting Monitoring of Disk Space Usage

Setting Up and Starting Security Scanning