{"id":1237,"date":"2020-06-04T23:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=1237"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T03:45:01","slug":"activate-kernelcare-at-plesk-control-panel","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/activate-kernelcare-at-plesk-control-panel","title":{"rendered":"Activate KernelCare at Plesk Control Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.togglebox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/kernel-care-new-logo-scaled.png\" alt=\"Kernel Care licenses by Togglebox\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Activate KernelCare at Plesk Control Panel<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>Let\u2019s make sure the extension has been properly licensed for your Plesk license key by validating Plesk Additional License Keys with below steps;\n<ul>\n<li>Log in Plesk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Tools &amp; SettingsLicense ManagementMake sure \u201cext-kernelcare-plesk\u201d is listed at License Management page. That shows the license key is ready. Now let\u2019s move on to install the extension on your Plesk instance. In the event the retrieve license does not work, login to your client area billing account &gt; Navigate to your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/\">VPS or Dedicated Server Subscription<\/a>. On the left panel, under the \u201cOverview\u201d, click the Addons.<\/p>\n<p>You should see the \u201cKernelCare\u201d addons listed over there. Look for the \u201cProduct Key\u201d section and copy that key. Go back to the \u201cAdditional License Keys\u201d tab on your Plesk control panel, and insert the \u201cProduct Key\u201d. This should allow the activation of your KernelCare product key.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plesk.com\/extensions\/kernelcare\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KernelCare extension<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14046541451\/original\/qTAPmMWrrmkThc4CTYHm4tn0c0rG-a_Tsg.png?1555663042\" alt=\"Activate KernelCare at Plesk Control Panel : Exabytes.my (Malaysia) Support Portal\" width=\"442\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Log in Plesk<\/li>\n<li>Enter Extensions from left side bar.<\/li>\n<li>Search for\u00a0<strong>KernelCare<\/strong>\u00a0extension.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>Get it free<\/strong> to install KernelCare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>After installing KernelCare extension, you may verify the applied kernel via below steps.\n<ul>\n<li>Open\u00a0<strong>KernelCare<\/strong> after completing the installation.<\/li>\n<li>The Effective Kernel Version must be higher than Real Kernel Version to know that KernelCare is in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activate KernelCare at Plesk Control Panel Let\u2019s make sure the extension has been properly licensed for your Plesk license key by validating Plesk Additional License Keys with below steps; Log in Plesk Tools &amp; SettingsLicense ManagementMake sure \u201cext-kernelcare-plesk\u201d is listed at License Management page. That shows the license key is ready. Now let\u2019s move on to install the extension on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[36],"kbtag":[1523,1137],"class_list":["post-1237","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-plesk","kbtag-kernelcare","kbtag-plesk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/1237\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}