Overview
This page covers the everyday screens of the Ascienth console at https://console.advinservers.com:- The “Virtual Servers” list, where you see all your servers and act on several at once.
- A server’s “Overview” tab, with its status, power buttons and usage graphs.
- The browser console, for using the server when SSH or remote desktop is not working.
- A server’s “Audit Log” tab, which records what was done to it and by whom.
The Server List
Click “Virtual Servers” in the sidebar. This is also the page you land on after you sign in. Each row shows the server’s name and hostname, location, IPv4 address and state. On wide screens the row also shows the price, billing cycle, next due date and whether renewals are paid automatically. Click a server to open it.- Search: type in the search box to filter by name, hostname, location, operating system or IP address.
- Sort: click the
ServerorStatecolumn heading to sort by it. - Orders: servers you have ordered but that are not built yet are listed as their own rows with an order status. See Ordering a Server.
- New server: click
Deploy Serverto order another one.
Acting on One Server
Click the menu at the end of a server’s row for quick actions:Acting on Several Servers
Tick the box at the start of each server’s row, or the box in the header to select every server on the page. A bar appears with the actions you can take on the selection:Startstarts the selected servers. Servers that are already running are left alone.Stopstops the selected servers. The dialog lets you choose between a graceful stop and a force stop, as described in Power Actions.Change Autopaysets whether renewals for the selected servers are paid from your account credit. See Invoices and Billing.
Start and Stop only appear when at least one selected server can be started or stopped.
A Server’s Overview Tab
Click a server in the list to open its “Overview” tab. The header shows the server’s name, primary IP address and hostname (click either to copy it), when it was created, its plan, vCPU, RAM, disk, transfer and location. The power buttons are on the right. Below the header, five cards show:
If an invoice for the server is unpaid or overdue, a notice at the top links to it.
Power Actions
The buttons in the header control the server’s power:Restart and Stop open a dialog with a Force reset or Force stop (kill) box, which is ticked by default:
- Ticked: the server is reset or powered off immediately, like pulling the plug. Unsaved data may be lost or corrupted.
- Unticked: we ask the operating system to reboot or shut down cleanly. If a graceful shutdown has not finished after one minute, the server is powered off.
While a Server Is Busy
When the server is installing, restoring, being upgraded or moved, a notice explains what is happening, and most tabs are disabled until it finishes. The “Overview” and “Billing” tabs stay available. While a snapshot is being taken, the “Snapshots” tab stays available too. A suspended server shows a Suspended notice, with the reason when there is one. If the last install did not finish, the notice The last install did not finish appears with a link toTry the install again. See Server Reinstallation. If it fails twice, open a ticket in the client area.
Usage Graphs
The “Overview” tab shows four graphs below the cards:CPU Usage, Memory Usage, Network Traffic and Disk Throughput. They refresh every few seconds while the page is open.
- Choose the time range with
Hour,Day,Week,MonthorYear. - Choose
Averageto see typical usage, orMaximumto see short spikes that averages hide.
https://console.advinservers.com/servers/<server>/graphs.
If a graph says No samples were recorded for this timeframe., there is no data for that period yet. A server that was stopped may have gaps.
Browser Console
The browser console shows the server’s screen, as if you had a monitor and keyboard plugged into it. Use it when you cannot reach the server over SSH or remote desktop, for example after a firewall mistake or while an installer from an ISO is running.1
Open the console
On the server’s page, click
VNC in the header. The console opens in a new window.2
Sign in
Click inside the console and sign in with the server’s root or Administrator password. If you do not know it, see Password Reset.
3
Use the control bar
The console’s control bar has buttons to show extra keys (such as
Send Ctrl-Alt-Del), use the clipboard, go full screen and change scaling settings.The console is unavailable while the server is busy with another operation, such as a reinstall. If the window shows
Waiting for the server. Reconnecting…, the server is restarting and the console reconnects on its own.Audit Log
Click the “Audit Log” tab on a server to see what has been done to it, newest first. Each entry shows:Event: what happened, for example a power action or a rename.Performed By: the person who did it, orSystemfor automatic actions. Entries made by our staff are markedStaff.IP Address: where the request came from.When: the date and time.
backup. The log is split into pages; use the controls at the bottom to move between them.
For a log of everything in a team, see “Audit Log” under “Teams” in the sidebar.
Team Permissions
The team owner can always use these screens. Members need these permissions in their role:
Members only see the buttons and tabs their role allows.
Using the API
This request restarts a server cleanly. Send
state as start, shutdown, restart, reset or kill:
<server_id> from the id field of GET /servers. See the API introduction for how to create a key and for the full list of endpoints.