You can set the desired weekdays and/or time range (the start and end hour)
when automatic Plesk updates are installed.
It is useful in the following cases:
- You want to comply with change management procedures adopted by your hosting provider
(for example, all updates must be installed outside/during business hours). - You are required by law to inform servers’ owners about Plesk downtime in advance.
- The legislation of your country obliges telecommunications companies to carry out
certain procedures during update.
You can manage when automatic Plesk updates are installed for:
- An individual server. In this case, see the instruction below.
- Clusters of licenses. Do this via KAPC.
Read more in this article.
To specify the desired weekdays and time range when Plesk auto-updates are installed:
Add an entry to the panel.ini file according to the following pattern:
[updates] updateDays = weekday1,weekday2 timeFrameStart = hour timeFrameEnd = hour
Note: You must specify not less than two weekdays and/or hours in UTC (convert your local time
to UTC).
Note: You can specify the updateDays parameter and the pair of the timeFrameStart and timeFrameEnd
parameters separately (to specify only weekdays or only the time range).
However, you cannot use the timeFrameStart and the timeFrameEnd parameters individually.
You must specify them both to set the desired time range.
For example, if you add the following entry to the panel.ini file
[updates] updateDays = saturday,sunday timeFrameStart = 11 timeFrameEnd = 18
Plesk updates will be installed only on Saturday and Sunday between 11 and 18 hours (UTC).
Note: The specified time range sets the desired time interval during which the installation of updates starts
but does not guarantee that the installation of updates will be finished within that interval.