> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://ayakaleaf-pro.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Basic management

> Post system messages, read open sockets, and close or reopen the editor for maintenance.

Click **Admin**, then **Manage Site**. The **Admin Panel** has three tabs: **System Messages**, **Open Sockets** and **Open/Close Editor**.

## System messages

A system message is a blue banner at the top of the **Projects** page and the editor. Every user sees it.

### Post a message

Enter the text under **Message** and click **Post Message**. The tab lists the messages that are showing now.

![The System Messages tab listing two posted messages above the Message field, the Post Message button and the Clear all messages button](https://mintcdn.com/ayakaleaf-pro/IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8/images/on-premises/basic-management-posted.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8\&q=85\&s=b1dd838b3b57c73b8f8fc367b74cf901)

Two posted messages

![The Projects page of a user with the two messages as blue banners at the top](https://mintcdn.com/ayakaleaf-pro/IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8/images/on-premises/basic-management-user-projects.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8\&q=85\&s=ea6c42e9ed7d7d75c6acba452cd0d157)

What users see

* A user can close a message with the **×**. It stays closed in that browser.
* A page that is already open checks for new messages every 15 minutes. Reloading the page shows them at once.

### Remove messages

**Clear all messages** removes every message at once and does not ask for confirmation. You cannot remove a single message.

## Open sockets

A diagnostic view of the outgoing connections the web service has open at this moment. It does not show who is online: the list can be empty while users are in the editor.

## Close the editor for maintenance

Use the **Open/Close Editor** tab. Its buttons act at once and do not ask for confirmation, and the tab does not show whether the editor is closed. To check, click **Projects**: you see the **Maintenance** page while it is closed.

![The Open/Close Editor tab with the buttons Close Editor, Disconnect all users and Reopen Editor](https://mintcdn.com/ayakaleaf-pro/IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8/images/on-premises/basic-management-open-close.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8\&q=85\&s=b7770681fe7342a63357cbfc948dd72c)

The Open/Close Editor tab

**1. Tell your users**

[Post a message](https://ayakaleaf-pro.mintlify.site/on-premises/user-guide/administrators/basic-management.md#post-a-message) with the time of the maintenance.

**2. Click Close Editor**

Despite its name, this closes almost the whole site. Every page except the admin panel shows **Maintenance**, including **Projects**, **Account Settings**, **Templates** and the login page. **Manage Users** and **Project/Object Lookup** keep working.

![The Maintenance page saying that the instance is currently down for maintenance](https://mintcdn.com/ayakaleaf-pro/IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8/images/on-premises/basic-management-closed-page.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8\&q=85\&s=efb55c059a0c2d5da501f86f4f0b7071)

What users see while the editor is closed

Users who already have the editor open stay connected. They can keep typing and their changes are kept, but **Recompile** ends with **Server Error**.

To change the text of this page, see [Maintenance page](https://ayakaleaf-pro.mintlify.site/on-premises/configuration/overleaf-toolkit/branding.md#maintenance-page).

**3. Click Disconnect all users**

Users in the editor see the dialog **Please wait**, which counts down from 10 seconds. Then their page refreshes and shows **Maintenance**.

![The editor behind the dialog Please wait, which says that the editor will refresh automatically in 8 seconds](https://mintcdn.com/ayakaleaf-pro/IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8/images/on-premises/basic-management-disconnect-dialog.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=IsGnx0wnzqtV4hI8\&q=85\&s=b685179f01edf97afe1dd8407e15b27c)

What users in the editor see

Close the editor first: otherwise the refresh brings users straight back into the editor.

**4. Do the maintenance, then click Reopen Editor**

Every page works again at once. Users reload the page to continue.

> [!WARNING]
>
> The login page is closed too, so stay signed in until you have reopened the editor. If you are locked out, restart the instance: the closed state is only kept in memory, so a restart opens the editor again.

> [!NOTE]
>
> On Kubernetes with several replicas, **Close Editor** only closes the replica that served your request. Use [Maintenance mode](https://ayakaleaf-pro.mintlify.site/on-premises/configuration/kubernetes/branding.md#maintenance-mode) instead.


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