Use · 10 min
Using PAUIOps Manager
Sign in, read live server health, edit project files, run terminal work, and manage users and projects from Manager's own embedded interface.
Sign in and understand roles
Manager serves its own interface directly from the backend — there is nothing separate to install. Open the Manager's address (its default port, 51800, or a domain you routed to it) in a browser and sign in with an account it already knows: the bootstrap administrator you configured at install time, or an account another administrator created.
| Role | What it opens |
|---|---|
| Administrator | Every page, plus Users & Projects administration, service lifecycle actions, and Nginx/domain provisioning. |
| Developer / custom role | The product areas your global role allows, narrowed further by your per-project read, write, or none access. |
| Viewer | Read-only access to the areas your role and project assignments permit. |
Read server health from Overview and Dashboard
Overview is what Manager opens by default: running and total container counts, total images, disk usage, and one resource row per project you can access, alongside your own public IP for the RDS-allowlisting workflow.
Dashboard adds live hardware telemetry — CPU, memory, disk, and GPU meters with a rolling activity log — plus administrator-only apt update/upgrade and reboot/shutdown controls for the host itself.
Browse and edit project files
Files opens a workspace scoped to the projects you're assigned: a file tree, a tabbed code editor with save, save-all, and fullscreen, a preview pane for images and rendered Markdown, full-text search across the project, and an integrated terminal panel — the same real-PTY-for-admins, line-discipline-for-non-admins terminal used on the Shell page.
- Open a project as a full editor workspace directly from the Shell page's Code Editor button, or from Files itself.
- Files above PAUIOPS_MAX_EDIT_FILE_MB (5 MB by default) cannot be edited in the browser.
- Content search skips files above PAUIOPS_SEARCH_MAX_FILE_MB and caps total results at PAUIOPS_SEARCH_MAX_RESULTS.
Run commands from the Shell page
Choose a project from the picker to see its active branch, live CPU and memory usage, and — when the Compose watcher is enabled for that project — its monitored service list with recovery status, a toggle, and a trace of the last recovery attempt.
- Type directly into the terminal surface — there is no separate command box. Administrators get a full interactive PTY; non-admin sessions get a local line discipline that still enforces the same Git/Docker validation.
- Click a quick-command preset (parsed from the project's own commands.md) to open a confirmation dialog with the exact command before it runs.
- Use the optional Ask AI prompt for a review-only Git or Docker command suggestion — it is typed at the prompt, never auto-executed.
- Purge a configured Cloudflare zone from the terminal header when Cloudflare integration is set up.
Manage your account, users, and projects
Settings always shows your own login details (username, email, password) and a profile summary. Administrators additionally get Users & Projects management inline on the same page.
- Create, search, edit, enable, or disable users; set their role, per-project access, and whether they may use RDS IP allowlisting.
- Create, search, or edit projects: start from a Git URL, review the derived name and clone destination, and choose a discovered branch.
- PAUIOps refuses to remove or disable the last enabled administrator, so the account can't be locked out.