User manual PARALLELS HELM 4.1.2 APS CONTROLLER

[. . . ] 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] 8 CHAPTER 3 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. Verify that there is a Maximum APS Application Instances resource limit. Create a hosting plan template that utilizes these resources: a. Go to Home > My Plan Templates, click Add. Select the package with APS support next to the Package. 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. Enter a Plan Name, select the template you made on the previous step next to the Template Name. 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. Change APS limits in the Plan with APSDefine the limit specific for APS provisioning: Maximum APS Application Instances. Define other limits. For information, refer to the Parallels Helm Online Help: Plans and Plan Templates > Resource Limits. 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. Click the required plan name in the list, and then click Resource Limits. Enter the desired limit (or select the Unlimited checkbox) next to the Maximum APS Application Instances field in the Web section. Click Save. CHAPTER 4 Managing APS Application Instances 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 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. [. . . ] Click the domain name in the My Domains or My Customers > [Customer] > Domains list. Click the Settings link to the right of the application name in the list. 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. [. . . ]