Server management has moved to your account

As of 28 October, the VMmanager panel at vm.forestsnet.cloud is closed to customers. Everything you used to do there is now in your account: power, console, OS reinstall, scripts, IP addresses and statistics. Sign in to the account as usual, a separate VMmanager login and password are no longer needed.

Your servers, IP addresses and data are unchanged, and the move did not affect how the servers run. There is nothing you need to do.

Why we closed the panel

After the October attack on VMmanager 6, we decided not to keep its panel open to the internet: the less is exposed, the fewer ways there are to attack. Servers still run on VMmanager, but commands now reach it through your account. Before every action, the account checks that the server is yours and that you have access to it.

Where to find things

Open the VPS section in your account and select a server. Actions are grouped:

Power — start, stop, reboot and hard reset.
Access — console, root password change and SSH keys.
System — OS reinstall, scripts, rescue mode, boot from ISO, server name and guest agent.
Network — IP addresses, address replacement and reverse DNS (PTR).
Statistics and History — load charts and the operation log.

The server state in the list updates by itself, there is no need to reload the page.

A step-by-step guide with screenshots is in the wiki: Managing your server in the account.

Console

The console opens right from your account, with no VMmanager sign-in. What it adds:

Paste from the clipboard. Commands, keys and long passwords, up to 8 thousand characters. The console types the text as if from a keyboard: Latin letters, digits, symbols, Tab and Enter. Cyrillic cannot be sent this way.
Username and password in one click. The console picks the username from the OS and the password from your service details, and leaves pressing Enter to you.
All your servers at hand. Search the list of your servers and switch between them without closing the console.
A comfortable view. Full-screen and compact modes, interface in Russian, English, German and Ukrainian.

Temporary access without a password

If the root password is lost or password login is turned off, press Temporary access in the console. A temporary account with sudo rights is created on the server and the console signs in as it right away, and sudo -i gives you root. The session lasts up to an hour, and the account is deleted once the console is closed. Your root password stays the same.

Temporary access works on Linux with systemd and a running QEMU guest agent. If something is missing, the console will tell you, and the regular login stays available.

IPv4 replacement

You can replace an address yourself, without writing to support. Open Network → IP addresses, select the address and press Replace IP address. A replacement costs €3 and is charged to your balance, with no limit on the number of replacements.

The server gets a new address from the free ones we check regularly.
The old address is removed and goes into quarantine. It is not given to other customers until a check shows it is clean.
Connections on the old address will drop. Update DNS records and application settings yourself.

If something goes wrong during the replacement, the operation stops and an administrator reviews it.

Primary address

If a server has several IPv4 addresses, any of them can be made primary for free: open Network → IP addresses, select the address and press Make primary. The account then treats it as the service’s primary address, and the former primary stays on the server as an additional one.

This does not change network settings inside the OS. Which address the server uses for outgoing connections is set in the system itself.

What else is new

Boot from ISO. Attach an image from our catalogue, boot from it and switch back to the disk: System → Boot ISO.
Guest agent. Without the agent, password change, scripts and temporary access do not work. If it stops responding, restore it with System → Guest agent. The server reboots and is unavailable for about a minute.
Operation log. History → Operation log shows what was done with the server, when and how it ended, and All my operations does the same for all your servers. If an operation fails, support is notified automatically.
Statistics. CPU, memory, disk, IOPS and traffic charts for any period from an hour to a year. For traffic you see how much was used this month, how much is left, when it resets and the forecast for the end of the month.
SSH keys. Generate a key pair right in your account. The private key is downloaded once, right after it is created, and we do not keep it. A key can be installed on a running server without a reinstall, with password login turned off at the same time.
Scripts. A script’s description is shown when you pick it. On Debian 13 and Ubuntu 26.04, scripts for the previous versions of these systems are available and marked as such.

If something does not work

If an action you need is missing from the account or an operation did not finish, write to support and we will help manually.