Monitoring Connections to Plesk

Monitoring User Sessions

To find out who of your customers is logged in to Plesk at the moment:

1. Go to Tools & Settings > Active Plesk Sessions. All sessions including yours will be presented and the following details will be displayed:

   • Type. A type of Plesk user who established the session. The following types may be displayed:

     • Server administrator.

     • Reseller or customer.

     • Mailbox owner.

   • Login. The login name the user is logged in as.

   • IP address. The IP address from which Plesk is accessed.

   • Logon time. The date and time when the user logged in to Plesk.

   • Idle time. The time that user was not doing anything in Plesk while being logged in.

2. To refresh the list of user sessions, click Refresh.

3. To end a user session, select the corresponding checkbox and click Remove, then confirm removal and click OK.

   

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Monitoring FTP Users Sessions

Your Plesk can show active FTP sessions only when any of the following FTP server programs is installed on the hosting server:

• Gene6 FTP Server (Windows hosting)

• Serv-U FTP Server (Windows hosting)

• ProFTPd (Linux/UNIX hosting)

To find out who is connected to your server via FTP, in what directories they currently are and what files they are uploading to or downloading from the server:

1. Go to Tools & Settings > Active FTP Sessions.

2. All sessions including yours will be presented and the following details will be displayed:

   • Type. The type of user who established the session:

     for users not registered with Plesk.

     for anonymous FTP…

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REFERENCES

• https://www.plesk.com/kb/docs/monitoring-connections-to-plesk/