Settings and daily operations
Control-plane settings, logs and background tasks, gateways, pages opened by direct address, and maintenance, upgrades and backups.
For control-plane administrators: system settings, logs and tasks, announcements and tickets, gateways, and the pages for plugins, themes and third-party providers that open by direct address.
System settings
Open "System → System settings" and use the tabs: system, data cleanup, account and security, identity and payments, mail, notifications, other, adaptive WAF.
- Read the scope note on the page first. System settings affect every user; agree a maintenance window and a way back with other admins.
- Refresh after saving to confirm the new value; if the page says the result is pending, retry with the original request or refresh to check.
- "Settings" in the account menu (top right) opens the same page.
Logs, tasks and messages
| What you want | Where |
|---|---|
| Whether site, certificate or node operations finished | System → Background tasks |
| Admin activity | System → System log, Log centre |
| Site access, blocks and WAF events | Analytics → Access log, Block log, WAF log, Block events |
| System reminders for nodes, attacks, reconciliation | Bell icon in the header → Messages |
| Announcements to users | System → Announcements |
| User tickets | System → Tickets (claim, reply, internal notes, status and priority) |
A change is done only when the background task has finished and the site, node or certificate page shows the same state.
Gateways
Nodes connect to the control plane through a gateway. The default gateway is installed with the control plane. For a separate gateway, click "Add gateway" under "System → Gateways" and run the install command shown on the gateway host as root; the token is shown once, use "New token" if it expired or was lost.
Pages opened by direct address
These pages are not in the sidebar yet. Open them from buttons on related pages, or add the path to your control-plane address (for example https://console.cdnca.com/dashboard/sys/plugin-store):
| Page | Path | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Plugin store | /dashboard/sys/plugin-store | Buy, download and enable plugins; see plugins |
| Themes | /dashboard/sys/themes | Enable and customise themes (linked from system settings) |
| Third-party provider plugins | /dashboard/sys/plugin-providers | Contract tests and enabling for DNS, SMS, ICP lookup, payment and mail plugins |
| Node market | /dashboard/sys/node-market | Supplying and subscribing to nodes; see node supplier and node subscriber |
| Payment channels | /dashboard/finance/payment-channels | Site top-ups and node-market direct payments |
| CNAME allocation authority | /dashboard/node/cname-allocations | CNAME allocations and site diagnosis |
| Messages | /dashboard/sys/inbox | System reminders; also from the bell icon |
If a page says you have no permission, ask an administrator to check your role; if it says the feature is not enabled, check that your licence includes the module.
Maintenance, upgrades and backups
"System → Maintenance & upgrade" has two tabs:
- "System upgrade": the control plane's current version and available upgrades; upgrade the control plane, and under "Node upgrade" check node versions and upgrade nodes. Upgrade only here; never replace control-plane or node binaries by hand.
- "Maintenance actions": control-plane backup and migration (back up now, scheduled backups, off-site storage, export the recovery key, migrate).