Parallels Helm Helm 4.2.2 User guide

Brand: Parallels Helm

Model: Helm 4.2.2

Category: Database software

Type: User guide

Parallels

Helm

APS Controller User Guide

Helm 4.2.2

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Contents

Preface 4

About This Document .................................................................................................................... 4

Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................... 4

Feedback ....................................................................................................................................... 5

Reselling APS-Enabled Hosting 6

Creating Hosting Plans with APS Support..................................................................................... 7

Changing APS-Specific Limit in Hosting Plans ............................................................................. 8

Managing APS Application Instances 9

Installing Application Instances on Domain ................................................................................. 10

Reconfiguring Application Instances ........................................................................................... 11

Uninstalling Applications from Domain ........................................................................................ 12

In this chapter:

About This Document ........................................................................................ 4

Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 4

Feedback .......................................................................................................... 5

About This Document

This guide is addressed to Parallels Helm users who want to benefit from using the

SaaS solution provided by APS.

APS stands for Application Provisioning Standard, a new application packaging format

designed to help implement a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model. This new

SaaS model facilitated by APS enables additional revenue generation per user and is

now made available to all industry hosting providers and independent software vendors

who wish to have this new capability.

Typographical Conventions

Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation

conventions used in it.

The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.

Formatting convention

Type of Information

Example

Special Bold

Items you must select,

such as menu options,

command buttons, or

items in a list.

Go to the System tab.

Titles of chapters,

sections, and

subsections.

Read the Basic

Administration chapter.

C H A P T E R 1

Preface

Preface 5

Italics

Used to emphasize the

importance of a point, to

introduce a term or to

designate a command

line placeholder, which is

to be replaced with a real

name or value.

The system supports the

so called wildcard

character search.

Monospace

The names of

commands, files,

directories, and domain

names.

The license file is located

in the

http://docs/common/

licenses directory.

Preformatted

On-screen computer

output in your command-

line sessions; source

code in XML, C++, or

other programming

languages.

# ls –al /files

total 14470

Preformatted

Bold

What you type,

contrasted with on-screen

computer output.

# 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.

As a Reseller, you can do the following, provided that a package with APS support is

set up for your account:

1. create hosting plans with APS support

2. change APS-specific limits in plans with APS support

In This Chapter

Creating Hosting Plans with APS Support ......................................................... 7

Changing APS-Specific Limit in Hosting Plans................................................... 8

C H A P T E R 2

Reselling APS-Enabled Hosting

Creating Hosting Plans with APS Support

 To create a plan with APS support:

1. Verify that you have a package with APS support set up for your

account:

a. Go to Home > My Packages and click a package name in the list.

b. Click Resource Usage.

c. Verify that there is a Maximum APS Application Instances resource

limit.

2. Create a hosting plan template that utilizes these resources:

a. Go to Home > My Plan Templates, click Add.

b. Enter a desired Template Name.

c. Select the package with APS support next to the Package.

d. Click Next.

e. Leave the inherit resources from parent checkbox selected.

Else, you can clear the checkbox and change the template resources, but this

should be done very carefully so that you do not remove APS-enabled

resources (Web and/or database). In case you remove them, the plan template

will have no APS support.

f. Click Save.

After this, your plan template is created.

3. Create a plan based on the template you made on the previous step:

a. Go to Home > My Plans, click Add.

b. Enter a Plan Name, select the template you made on the previous

step next to the Template Name.

c. Click Save to create a plan with default options.

Otherwise, specify the desired options basing on the information from Parallels

Helm Online Help: Plans and Plan Templates > Add Plan, and then save.

4. Define the plan resource limits:

a. Change APS limits in the Plan with APSDefine the limit specific

for APS provisioning: Maximum APS Application Instances.

b. Define other limits.

For information, refer to the Parallels Helm Online Help: Plans and Plan

Templates > Resource Limits.

C H A P T E R 3

8 Reselling APS-Enabled Hosting

c. Click Save.

Now, you are ready for creating packages with APS support and setting them up for

your customers, and for creating domains with APS support, where APS

applications can easily be deployed.

Changing APS-Specific Limit in Hosting

Plans

 To change the APS-specific limit in hosting plan with APS support:

1. Go to Home > My Plans.

2. Click the required plan name in the list, and then click Resource Limits.

3. Enter the desired limit (or select the Unlimited checkbox) next to the

Maximum APS Application Instances field in the Web section.

4. Click Save.

As a user, you can install APS applications on your domains, change the application

settings and remove them, provided that a package with APS support is set up for your

account.

In this chapter:

Installing Application Instances on Domain ........................................................ 10

Reconfiguring Application Instances .................................................................. 11

Uninstalling Applications from Domain .............................................................. 12

C H A P T E R 4

Managing APS Application Instances

10 Managing APS Application Instances

Installing Application Instances on

Domain

When an APS application instance is installed on domain, APS Controller automatically

creates, configures and allocates all the required resources basing on the installation

settings specified by user and/or defined by the package. These resources include (but

are not limited to) databases, virtual and physical directories.

Note: None of the resources created when installing APS application instance are

count in the resource usage. The only resource count upon APS application installation

is ‘Maximum APS Application Instances’.

If an application package supports database prefixes (tables can be prefixed in the

database), during the installation you will be prompted with database name and user

credentials which you can optionally specify in order to reuse an existing database.

 To install an APS application instance on a domain:

1. Click the domain name in the My Domains or My Customers > [Customer] >

Domains list.

2. Click My APS Applications, and then click Add Application.

A page listing all available application packages opens.

3. (Optional) To view the application information, click the application

name in the list.

4. Click the Install link next to the application you want to install.

5. Read the application end-user license agreement and click I Accept.

Parallels Helm checks if the application requirements are met.

In case they are not, installation stops and the error message is displayed.

In case it is a PHP application which supports several PHP versions, APS Controller

selects the highest version available provided that other application package

requirements are met.

6. Specify the name of a web directory where application instance will be

placed next to the Web Url Path.

The application will be accessible by this URL.

Be sure that the physical directory at which the web directory points is empty, or

else the installation will be stopped.

7. (Optional) If an application package supports database prefixes and you

want an existing database to be used by the application instance,

specify the database name and login credentials.

8. Specify other application settings, if there are any.

9. Click Ok.

Managing APS Application Instances 11

Parallels Helm installs the application, and then displays the Installed Applications

page.

10. To access the application, click the link under Web URL Path to the right of

the application name in the list.

Reconfiguring Application Instances

 To change settings of an application instance installed on a domain:

1. Click the domain name in the My Domains or My Customers > [Customer] >

Domains list.

2. Click My APS Applications.

3. Click the Settings link to the right of the application name in the list.

4. Specify new settings, and click Ok.

The changes are applied immediately.

12 Managing APS Application Instances

Uninstalling Applications from Domain

When an APS application is removed from domain, all the system resources that were

automatically allocated for the application when it was installed are also removed.

These resources can include databases, virtual directories and files.

APS Controller does not remove files in an application instance directory, virtual

directories and databases which were not allocated by APS Controller during the

application installation, but were assigned to the application later. This is also true for

files created or modified by the application instance users.

 To uninstall APS applications from a domain:

1. Click the domain name in the My Domains or My Customers > [Customer] >

Domains list.

2. Click My APS Applications.

3. Select the checkboxes that correspond to the applications you want to

remove.

4. Click Remove selected above the list.

The removal confirmation screen opens.

5. Click Ok.

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