What is Plesk Daily Maintenance script

Question

Daily notifications are sent to server administrator periodically mentioning one of the below files:

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

What is Plesk Daily Maintenance script?

Answer

It is a script that launches Plesk Daily Maintenance task. This task performs various operations on the server, such as:

• Checking for Plesk updates
• Installing updates
• Updating license keys
• Calculating Statistics
• Updating application catalog cache
• Log rotation

The operations can be launched separately. See the following articles for details:

• On Windows: How to rerun daily maintenance tasks separately on Plesk for Windows?
• On Linux: How to rerun daily maintenance tasks separately for Plesk on Linux?