What does the PleskUsage subtask from the Daily Maintainance script do and can it be excluded?

Question

• There are a lot of PleskUsage Daily Maintenance task processes on my Plesk server:

  CONFIG_TEXT: psaadm 12005 0.0 0.0 374504 30560 ? SN 00:11 0:00 | _ /usr/bin/sw-engine -c /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/script.php
  
  psaadm 16427 0.0 0.0 374500 30532 ? SN 00:14 0:00 | _ /usr/bin/sw-engine -c /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/task-script.php PleskUsage --period=daily
  
  psaadm 32920 1.4 0.0 401716 56588 ? SN 00:17 0:03 | _ /usr/bin/sw-engine -c /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/php.ini /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/DailyMaintainance/task-script.php PleskUsage --period=daily --module=composer
  
  teddysf 6269 0.0 0.0 87312 4600 ? DN 00:21 0:00 | _ /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/vhostmng-find

  What do these tasks do?

Answer

The PleskUsage subtask in the Daily Maintenance script is responsible for the collection of measurements or other data within the server and their automatic transmission to different parts of the Plesk control panel, so that it gets updated with the changes.

It is generally of great importance to the Plesk control panel to have this subtask executed daily for various reasons.

The process vhostmng-find is the internal utility that performs various operations related to scanning virtual hosts directories. For example, it is used to index files, so that they will be accessed faster via the File Manager.

During the execution of the PleskUsage subtask, vhostmng-find is also executed in order to check the content of the directories and calculate space usage.

Also, the utility is used for various operations started by the WordPress Toolkit.

The task PleskUsage --period=daily --module=composer recursively scans virtual hosts directories in order to determine which one contains the composer.json file.