OpenClaw

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant that you talk to on your messaging apps. Netkeel installs it on its own server, puts its dashboard on a web address with HTTPS and a password, and keeps it running, backed up and updated.

Set it up

Create a server and choose OpenClaw under 2 Application. It uses Nginx only, and only sizes with at least 2 GB of memory are shown.
When the server is Online, add a website to it, with your domain or with No domain yet? Start without one. This website is the agent’s dashboard. An OpenClaw server runs one agent, so it holds one website.
Netkeel sets the agent up on its own. Open the website and go to Hosting › AI agent to follow it. The first setup takes a few minutes.

If the setup fails, the card says why. Click Install again to retry.

Save the credentials

The Credentials card shows:

Site username and Site password: the password in front of the dashboard.
Gateway token: OpenClaw’s own sign-in.

They are shown once by themselves. Keep them somewhere safe. Later, click Show credentials to see them again. You can change the site password under Password & access; it always stays on for an agent’s website.

Open the dashboard

Click Open dashboard. Sign in with the site username and password, then paste the gateway token into the Control UI’s Gateway secret field. The browser keeps the token for that tab only, so paste it again in a new tab or browser.

Add your keys

Under Keys and settings, add the keys the agent needs, such as your AI provider’s API key and a messaging app’s bot token. Common names include:

AI providers: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, OPENAI_API_KEY, OPENROUTER_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY
Messaging apps: TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN, DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_BOT_TOKEN

You can add other names too. Saved values are never shown again; to keep one, leave it empty when you edit the list. Saving restarts the agent. Some names are set by Netkeel and can’t be changed; the editor tells you if you use one.

Start, stop and restart

The Status card shows whether the agent is Running, Starting, Stopped or Failed, with its Uptime, Restarts and Health.

Start starts a stopped agent, and Restart restarts a running one.
Stop stops the agent. It stops answering on your messaging apps, and the dashboard shows an error page until you start it again.

Recent log shows the agent’s latest output, with your keys and credentials hidden. Click Refresh to read it again.

Update OpenClaw

The top card shows the Version you run and the Latest version Netkeel offers. When a newer one is available, click Update to that version and confirm.

Netkeel takes a backup first, then restarts the agent on the new version. If it doesn’t start within two minutes, the previous version and its data are put back automatically.

New credentials

Click Generate new credentials to set the agent up again with a new site password and a new gateway token. The old ones stop working, and signed-in browsers have to sign in again. Your keys, settings and data are kept.

Backups

The agent’s data is backed up with the website’s automatic backups. The agent is paused briefly while a backup is taken.

Who can do what

The Owner and Super admins see the credentials, change the keys, set the agent up again and update it. Collaborators with access to the website can see its status and log, and start, stop or restart it. They don’t get the file manager, SSH and SFTP or backup downloads for an agent’s website. See Team members.

What is not available

Browser tool: no web browser is installed on the server, so OpenClaw’s browser tool doesn’t work.
Staging, cloning and moving to another server are not available for an agent’s website.