Servers
The server page
Overview, health score, live status, security baseline, agent updates, reboots and what an offline server shows.
Open a server from Servers to manage it. The left menu groups its sections:
| Group | Sections |
|---|---|
| General | Overview, Activity |
| Apps & data | Sites, Databases, Backups |
| System | Performance, Updates, Services, Firewall, Users, Cron, Daemons, Disk |
| Tools | Files, Terminal |
The header shows the server's state (Online, Offline, Waiting for agent), its address, system and health score, with Terminal and Reboot buttons.
Overview
- Load, Memory, Disk and Uptime tiles from the agent's last report. Refresh asks the server for a fresh report.
- History: load, memory and disk over the last day to 90 days (5-minute averages; how long depends on your plan) — see Monitoring and alerts.
- Live status: memory, swap, every disk, failed services, and a notice when a reboot is needed to finish updates.
- Server: hostname, operating system, kernel, architecture, CPU cores, memory, disk and agent version.
- Health score (0–100) with its issues: offline, base setup not run, failed services, reboot required, a disk 80% or 90% full, pending security updates, an outdated agent or system, failing security checks, and an expiring agent certificate.
- Baseline setup: what the automatic setup did; Run baseline setup runs it again.
- Security baseline: CIS-lite checks of SSH, the firewall, automatic updates, kernel hardening and accounts (Run security checks), and Check for drift to find files Zefily manages that were changed by hand.
- Diagnostics: Collect diagnostics gathers web server, PHP and agent logs, package activity and out-of-memory kills when something is wrong.
- Update agent appears when a newer agent is available.
SSH password login
Zefily keeps SSH password login on until an SSH key is set for root or a sudo user, so you can never lock yourself out. Add your key to a sudo user on the Users section, then run the baseline setup again: password login is turned off.
Activity
Every job the panel sent to this server — who asked for it, when, its state and its log. Jobs waiting for your passkey can be approved here.
Reboot
Reboot asks for confirmation and your passkey; sites are unavailable for about a minute and the server reconnects on its own. Servers at a connected cloud provider also have Power-cycle at the provider for a server that does not answer.
When a server is offline
If the agent has not reported for a while, the server page says This server is offline — last seen …. Live figures, updates, services and tools are paused (their sections are greyed out); the server's record, activity and sites stay visible, and changes run once the agent reconnects. If the machine is running, check the agent on it:
systemctl status zefily-agent
Tags, groups and bulk actions
On the Servers list, tag servers, move them into groups and select several of them for bulk actions: ping, refresh status, check updates or install security updates.
Updated October 18, 2026