# Manage Your Private Connect

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## **State of Your Private Connect and Port**

* **Inactive**\
  The port or private connect is not connected.
* **Deploying**\
  The port or private connect is being deployed.
* **Up**\
  The port or private connect is connected and running.
* **Warning**\
  The port or private connect is abnormal.
* **Down**\
  The port or private connect is disabled.
* **Power off**\
  You deleted your service, or your balance is 2 days overdue.

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<mark style="color:blue;">Go to</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">**Action**</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">></mark> <mark style="color:blue;">**Redeploy**</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">to restore your service or refill your balance within 2 days. Otherwise, your service will be fully terminated and become unrestorable.</mark>
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## **Private Connect View**

1. Expand the private connect to view your port or cloud connect details.
2. Click the label of your private connect to:
   * View your bandwidth graph in the **Overview**
   * Update your notes in **Information**
   * Change your bandwidth cap in **Configuration**
   * Delete your private connect in **Delete**

{% hint style="info" %} <mark style="color:blue;">**Note**</mark>

* <mark style="color:blue;">Your monthly cost will change according to your new bandwidth cap. Please see</mark> [<mark style="color:purple;">**Cloud Networking Pricing**</mark>](https://docs.console.zenlayer.com/welcome/pricing/cloud-networking-pricing) <mark style="color:blue;">for more details.</mark>
* <mark style="color:blue;">If the billing cycle has already started (UTC+0), you will still need to pay your bill from the day of deletion. Please see</mark> [<mark style="color:purple;">**Cloud Networking Pricing**</mark>](https://docs.console.zenlayer.com/welcome/pricing/cloud-networking-pricing) <mark style="color:blue;">for more details.</mark>
* <mark style="color:blue;">Go to</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">**Action**</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">></mark> <mark style="color:blue;">**Redeploy**</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">to restore your service within 2 days. Otherwise, your service will be fully terminated.</mark>
* <mark style="color:blue;">All data will be scrubbed and become unrecoverable once your private connect has been fully terminated. Please proceed with caution.</mark>
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## **Port View**

1. Expand the port to view details of private connects created on your port.
2. Click **+ Connection** to create a new private connect on the existing port.
3. Click the label of your port to:
   * View your bandwidth graph in the **Overview**
   * Change LOA owner or update your notes in **Information**
   * View the **Change History** of your port
   * Delete your port in **Delete**\
     You can only delete the port when:\
     \- the port is inactive;\
     \- the port is not any access point of private connects or cloud routers.

{% hint style="info" %} <mark style="color:blue;">**Note**</mark>

* <mark style="color:blue;">If the billing cycle has already begun (UTC+0), you will still need to pay your bill from the day of deletion. Please refer to</mark> [<mark style="color:purple;">**Cloud Networking Pricing**</mark>](https://docs.console.zenlayer.com/welcome/pricing/cloud-networking-pricing) <mark style="color:blue;">for more details.</mark>
* <mark style="color:blue;">Go to</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">**Action**</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">></mark> <mark style="color:blue;">**Redeploy**</mark> <mark style="color:blue;">to restore your service within 2 days. Otherwise, your service will be fully terminated.</mark>
* <mark style="color:blue;">All data will be scrubbed and become unrecoverable once your port has been fully terminated. Please proceed with caution.</mark>
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## **Cloud View**

View a private connect with Public Cloud set as the Access Point Type. Please see [**Private Connect View**](#private-connect-view) on how to manage your connections.