server_pref.exe: System and Interface Preferences

The server_pref.exe utility is used to manage server-wide settings.
Using this utility, one can perform the following operations:

• Set up default Plesk control panel interface preferences, such as
  locale, skin and interface template.
• Retrieve lists of available locales, skins and interface templates.
• Set up host name for the Plesk server.
• Set up server-wide preferences for traffic and disk space usage
  statistic.
• Set up server-wide database preferences.
• Allow/prohibit users to create DNS subzones in other users’ DNS
  zones.
• Include customer password in files which keep WebMatrix publication
  settings.

Location

%plesk_cli%

Usage

server_pref.exe <command> [
<option_1> [<param>]
[<option_2> [<param>]]
... [<option_N> [<param>]]

Example

The following command sets the Plesk server host name to
host.example.com, includes mailboxes in the disk
space usage calculation, and includes only outbound traffic
in the traffic calculation.

plesk bin server_pref.exe --update -hostname host.example.com -include-mailboxes true -traffic-direction out

Commands