Documentation

Abridged from the manuals our own operators work from. Where a behaviour is a default you can change, it says so; where something is not promised, it says that too.

Five pages, in the order you will need them. Start at the installation guide, and read the report-only section before you install on a host with paying customers on it.

Running cPanel/WHM instead of CyberPanel? The installation page has a section for that , and Shelltrap on cPanel says what the beta covers.

Installation

Requirements on CyberPanel and cPanel, signed packages, the capability probe, Full and Lite profiles, systemd units and the report-only start that belongs on any host with …

Configuration

The per-domain policy model, the keys you can set, the local API and CLI, and the health and metrics you should alert on.

CyberPanel plugin

Installing, upgrading and repairing the Shelltrap plugin for CyberPanel, the pages it adds, and the role model for administrators, resellers and customers. cPanel hosts use the …

Signature feeds

How rule generations are built, licence-filtered, signed, verified, gated against a corpus and activated — and how a false-positive storm rolls them back automatically.

Licensing

How a Shelltrap licence key works, what activation binds to, how the offline token is verified, and exactly what the daemon does when a licence is missing or expired.

Derived from the Shelltrap product manuals (architecture, installation, feeds, plugin, API, licensing), revision 2026-09-04. The manuals shipped with your version are authoritative.