User manual PARALLELS HELM 4.1.2 SYSTEM SETUP WIZARD REV 1.0

[. . . ] The system supports the so called wildcard character search. Monospace The license file is located in the http://docs/common/ licenses directory. Preface Preformatted # ls ­al /files total 14470 5 On-screen computer output in your commandline sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages. What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output. Preformatted Bold # cd /root/rpms/php CAPITALS Names of keys on the keyboard. SHIFT, CTRL, ALT KEY+KEY Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another. CTRL+P, ALT+F4 Feedback If you have found a mistake in this guide, or if you have suggestions or ideas on how to improve this guide, please send your feedback using the online form at http://www. parallels. com/en/support/usersdoc/. Please include in your report the guide's title, chapter and section titles, and the fragment of text in which you have found an error. CHAPTER 2 About Parallels Helm Parallels Helm Web Hosting Control System is an extremely powerful hosting automation solution for Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. Parallels Helm is owned by Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software. [. . . ] On the Services screen you can pick a Provider from the dropdown box, which will be the basis of the Service that you are going to create. The Provider list is populated with the Provider Modules you have installed through the Parallels Helm Configuration Tool. Please refer to the Parallels Helm Configuration Tool Guide for more details. For more detailed descriptions about each of these services, please refer to the relevant user guide available from the Parallels Helm Web site. Running Parallels Helm System Setup Wizard 9 For example, for Microsoft FTP Service: Friendly Name: Enter a friendly name for the service e. g. IP Address: Choose the IP address that you want the FTP service to communicate on. This is also the IP that the "ftp" DNS entry will be assigned to. Physical Path: Enter the root path that you want to store your FTP folders in (by default it is C:\Domains but it can be changed to whichever location you wish). NT User Account Description: Enter a description which will be added to the Description field of the Windows user, when the FTP account is created. Once you have filled in the details and clicked Next, the service will be added to your server. 5. Click Next on the Confirmation screen to get taken back to the Services page of the Wizard. Here you can choose to add more services for this server, edit or remove services that you have already set up for t his server, or add or modify resources in Parallels Helm. Repeat previous steps to add into Parallels Helm each of the services that you wish to use. 6. Once done, you now need to create Resources in Parallels Helm, so choose I would like to add or modify Resources in Parallels Helm and click Next. On the Resources screen, you need to choose the Provider that you are using to create the resource. In this example we will choose Microsoft FTP, since that is the service we created earlier in the Wizard. Here, you can enter the name of the new resource, the distribution type and the services that the resource will include. Resource Name: Enter a name for the Resource you are adding (e. g. Distribution Type: Choose the type of Distribution that you want any added domains to use. The options are: Random Distribution: If this option is picked, then one of the services in the Resource is picked at random, and the domain/account created on that service. If that service is offline then Parallels Helm will attempt to add the domain/account to another random service in the Resource. Maximum Domain Count: If this option is picked, then the servers associated with the services in the Resource are analysed, and the domain/account is created on the service whose server has the least amount of domains/accounts already on it. If that service is offline then Parallels Helm will attempt to add the domain/account to the service with the next lowest amount on it. Provider Load Index: If this option is picked, then the providers associated with the services in the Resource are analysed, to see which server is the "least heavily laden". If that particular service is offline then Parallels Helm will attempt to add the domain/account to the service on the next "least heavily laden" server. 10 Running Parallels Helm System Setup Wizard Distribute To Primary Resource: If you check this box then when a domain is added into Parallels Helm, Parallels Helm will attempt to create each account (Web, Mail, FTP, DNS, etc) on the same server as whichever Resource is marked as "Primary Resource" in the Plan Template. If it is not possible to do so because no corresponding service exists on that server, then a random server which does have the service on will be used. Example: You have Server 1 with Web, DNS and FTP services on it. [. . . ] If you want to take Resources out of the Selected Resources box, select them and use the << arrow to move them out again. Select it and click the >> button to move it to the Selected Resources box. Once you have made your choices, click Next to create the Plan Template. At the Confirmation page you can either create your first domain, or choose to do this at a later date. Running Parallels Helm System Setup Wizard 11 12. If you want to add a domain under this Plan Template, select the option Add a domain for this template and click Next to get taken to the Domains screen. [. . . ]