Nodes

A node is a hosting server running nexpanel-agent. Open Servers › Nodes to see every node with its load, memory, disk, accounts and service status.

Node overview#

Each node has an Overview tab with:

• Node identity & agent — hostname, public IP and node ID (with copy buttons), the last agent heartbeat and agent version, uptime, last reboot, maintenance state and location.
• Key numbers — hosted accounts against the node's limit, CPU load, memory, disk and HTTP requests per second with the trend against the previous 10 minutes and the number of active connections.
• Needs attention — incidents ordered by likely customer impact (Critical, High, Medium): the agent not reporting, a failed service, the web server down, a full disk, many server errors or blocked requests on a domain, accounts hitting resource limits, waiting or failed jobs. Admins can dismiss a notice; it comes back if the problem clears and returns later.
• Core services — every service the node runs, plus backups and the agent itself.
• PHP Selector Breakdown, MariaDB Performance (connections, slow queries, buffer pool hit rate, database size) and Abuse & Inode Monitor (accounts near their inode limit, WAF attacks per domain, mail queue).
• Domains with high HTTP activity — requests per second, visitors, bandwidth, 5xx rate and a Diagnose link to the domain's access log.
• Top resource-consuming accounts — CPU, memory, entry processes and disk I/O from the LVE manager.
• Recent events and Recent jobs, with 5, 10, 25 or 50 rows.

Node tabs#

Maintenance mode#

Enable maintenance (top right of the overview) keeps every site online but stops NexPanel from placing new accounts on the node. Use it before hardware work or a migration. It is recorded in the audit log.

Node actions#

The Node actions menu has shortcuts to refresh service status, the process manager, MySQL processes, logs, system updates, the web server and node settings, and two reboot options:

• Reboot server — stops services cleanly, then restarts the server.
• Forceful reboot — restarts immediately; only for a server that does not respond to a graceful reboot.

Both ask you to type the node name to confirm. Sites are unavailable until the server is back (usually 1–3 minutes).

Jobs#

Every change sent to a node is a job. Overview › Agent jobs lists them with their status and output. A failed job can be retried with Retry; NexPanel refuses to retry a job when a newer job of the same kind exists, so an old change never overwrites a newer one.