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## Starting, Stopping and Restarting Plesk Services

You can monitor, start, stop, restart and disable various Plesk services, and also change their startup type from the control panel.

To see the status of a service:

1. Go to Server > Service Management.
2. Click Show All to show all services from the service groups. To hide all services, click Hide All. The current state of a service or a group of services is marked by an icon:
   - means that the service or all services in a group are running,
   - means that the service or all services in a group are stopped,
   - means that several services in a group are running and some are stopped,
   - means that the service is not installed or its management capabilities are not supported by the license key.
   - In the Startup Type field you can see whether the service is started automatically or should be started manually.

To start a service:

1. Go to Server > Service Management.
2. Click the icon corresponding to the service you wish to start.

To restart a service:

1. Go to Server > Service Management.
2. Click the icon corresponding to the service you wish to restart.

To stop a service:

1. Go to Server > Service Management.
2. Click the icon corresponding to the service you wish to stop.

To set service startup type:

1. Go to Server > Service Management.
2. Select the check box corresponding to the required service in the list.
3. Select the required startup type:
   - Click Manual to start selected services manually upon Plesk startup.
   - Click Auto to start selected services automatically upon Plesk startup.

To disable a service:

1. Go to Server > Service Management.
2. Select the check box corresponding to the required service in the list.
3. Click Disable.

To make changes to a group of services:

1. Go to Server > Service Management.
2. Select the check boxes corresponding to the required services in the list.
3. Click the button corresponding to the action you want to perform on the selected services:
   1. Click Start to start selected services.
   2. Click Stop to stop selected services.
   3. Click Restart to restart selected services.
   4. Click Disable to disable selected services.
   5. Click Manual to start selected services manually upon Plesk startup.
   6. Click Auto to start selected services automatically upon Plesk startup.