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  1. S

    Issue Watchdog wdcollect SMTP error

    Hi everyone, I'm having consts issue with watchdog, as the alert email (for example for when Apache is down) is not being send with following errors: And it keeps looping for a long time. But on the other hand, daily emails are being sent fine with the email that was setup in the watchdog...
  2. K

    Resolved Where can I set the Email-Address for the weekly watchdog-Emails

    I am receiving a weekly email from the watchdog reporting the status. Due to changing my internet provider, I have to change that email. I have already changed all email addresses I could locate, but for this last email I can't locate any email entry. No search was successful nor could I find...
  3. H.W.B

    Resolved Alternative for Watchdog on Ubuntu 22.04

    Hello Ubuntu 22.04 does not support the Watchdog package from Plesk. Is there an alternive available that monitors services and can restart them?? Thank you Henk
  4. V

    Resolved PHP Warning: unlink(/usr/local/psa/var/modules/watchdog/report/security_2022-01-31): No such file or directory

    Dear Plesk team, On Jan 29th, I noticed the following cron error: PHP Warning: unlink(/usr/local/psa/var/modules/watchdog/report/security_2022-01-24): No such file or directory in /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/clean-reports on line 11 Today, I received a similar cron error: PHP...
  5. HoracioS

    Issue Plesk 18.0.42 + Debian 11.2 + MariaDB 10.5.12 problems

    Hi! I'm experiencing problems with MySQL in this configuration. The MySQL stop working suddenly. Mar 09 08:08:57 ibicuy mariadbd[1131]: 2022-03-09 8:08:57 3770 [Warning] Aborted connection 3770 to db: 'psa' user: 'admin' host: 'localhost' (Got an error reading communication packets) Mar 09...
  6. N

    Issue Watchdog is missing (18.0.39) Ubuntu

    Hello, I have some big issues with my server, and i 'm trying to find a way. First of all, i can't find watchdog extension (check image). Second: "There are incorrect permissions on some items: \/var\/lock","level":1} I read some threads and this was flagged as bug and resolved for versions...
  7. Talistech

    Question Is watchdog still available Ubuntu ^20.04?

    Installed a fresh Plesk Obsidian Version 18.0.32 Update #2 on a fresh Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. Watchdog is nowhere to be found, not in extensions, not in Plesk Components and also not able to install it through plesk-cli. Is watchdog still available Ubuntu ^20.04? Watchdog was always very handy to...
  8. R

    Resolved Watchdog won't start, problems in spamass-milter

    I have just removed and then again installed the Watchdog and now it can not start: The contents of /usr/local/psa/etc/modules/watchdog/monitrc_vz.tpl are: Plesk Obsidian 18.0.30 I have tried to remove and install the Spam Assassin -- it didn't help. How could I solve that?
  9. Jllynch

    Question Monit - where to configure. Watchdog?

    Is Monit still a thing or is it replaced with Grafana? The documents talk about going to the Watchdog extension but I can't find that - I thought it was deprecated. Where do we configure it? The reason for asking is that our messages log is fill of these messages as we changed the partition...
  10. BrinsleyP

    Issue The Wdcollect service is not responding

    When i try activate the Watchdog this error show; Error: The Wdcollect service is not responding. Refer to Plesk technical support for help. How to fix this, i trry restart, reinstall and nothing work...
  11. S

    Question rkhunter.conf

    how can I modify the rkhunter.conf ? Watchdog reports a lot of warning that I want to suppress. The first lines of the conf file say this: #DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE BECAUSE IT WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY, #SO ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST AFTER YOU UPGRADE PLESK. Do I need to create a...
  12. S

    Issue watchdog emails

    Hi all, recently I realized that our dev server doesn't send anymore the weekly report of watchdog, neither if I run the task manually. I don't remember but I think that it stops when I changed the hostname from the default one to a new hosted website. I follow this guide to change the...
  13. N

    Resolved Error in wdcollect.log: Failed to connect to database server

    I have: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS‬ Produkt Plesk Onyx Version 17.8.11 Update #17 MySQl 5.7.23 In the /var/log/plesk/modules/wdcollect.log I found the error: Failed to connect to database server: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'admin'@'localhost' (using password: YES) This error occures...
  14. fabiodisconzi

    Issue Steady increase of ram usage until server crash (by watchDog stats)

    Hi to all, I am new to the forum and also to server management. I own a dedicated server with PLESK installed. Some weeks ago I activated the WatchDog extension. The night of sunday 24th Jun something strange happened. Ram usage started to climb up to the server crash. This morning (25th of...
  15. M

    Issue Watchdog rkhunter warnings

    HI, I am running Plesk Onyx 17.8.11 #11 on Centos 6.9 final Watchdog 2.0-11, rkhunter 1.4.4 Despite extensive search and following recommendations (e.g. delete conf file, remove, reinstall), I cannot clear the warning: /usr/local/psa/etc/modules/watchdog/rkhunter.conf [ Warning ] [12:15:58]...
  16. P

    rkhunter (watchdog) warnings

    I have added the watchdog extension (rkhunter 1.4.4) to get more security on my server. Alas the output contains a lot of information which obfuscates the real issues thus making it likely to miss something important. On the help page it says that option --rwo can show warnings only. Q1: Can I...
  17. IronDonDon

    Issue plesk 17.8.11 and Watchdog

    Hi, after updating to version 17.8. I noticed that Watchdog settings page is now only accessible through - Extensions -> My Extension page and this only after re-installing that Watchdog. In general, it can't be found easily through search system in the Plesk Panel anymore. It looks like Plesk...
  18. F

    Resolved Watchdog doesnt scan server

    Hello, OS Debian 9.4 Plesk 17.8.11 Watchdog is installed and monitoring services, but if I want to scan the server under the security tab for rootkits, backdoors, local exploit and so on.... the scan starts but stops after 30 sec and Scanning Status shows The scanner has never been started...
  19. Oliver Marugg

    Question Watchdog to external M/MOnit

    Hi As a simple server monitoring system for *X several remote servers and VMs we use monit and its payable collector M/Monit, both work great. Plesk Onyx uses watchdog which is monit based. In /opt/psa/etc/modules/watchdog/monitrc every service and system is configured for watchdog as a local...
  20. DmitriyK

    Resolved Watchdog ???

    I do not see how you can install the extension Watchdog Setting Up and Starting Watchdog Services Debian 8.8‬, Plesk Onyx 17.8.2
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