I ran into this problem today when updating a client’s server to the latest version of Plesk.

Did you know that upgrading to >7.5.2 disables the ‘Updater’ button in the ‘Server’ section of Plesk?

I didn’t, but after a bit of head-scratching I found the ‘fix’. (NOTE: Not really a ‘fix’ as nothing was really broken - just disabled).

Anyway, enough of the banter, re-enabling the ‘Updater’ button again is as simple as one MySQL command:

mysql -uadmin -p`cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow`
use psa;
UPDATE misc SET val='false' WHERE param='disable_updater';
exit

UPDATE: It should be pointed out that it is a bad idea to enable the updater if your plesk installation is running under Virtuozzo. Plesk running in a virtual environment needs to be updated via templates, not the control panel update feature, and as such is disabled for a pretty good reason. For more information, refer to the following link:

http://kb.swsoft.com/article_117_786_en.html

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