Services

Most system and package services display their status on the Services page, which can be viewed by navigating to Status | Services. On this page, you will find a table which lists the name of the service (Service), a brief description (Description), and whether the service is running or stopped (Status). There is also an Actions column. By clicking on the appropriate icon for a service, you can either start a stopped service or restart/stop a running service. Normally, it is not necessary to control services in such a way, but you may need to do so in a troubleshooting scenario.

There are three additional icons that appear in some, but not all entries in the Services table:

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