Acronis APS 1.2 User Manual

Parallels APS 1.2 Integration Manual

Installation and usage of package in POA

1. Installation of the package

In this chapter we provide the necessary steps to install the BackupAgent APS package v1.2-4 in

Parallels Automation 5 (POA 5) and enable it for a customer. The APS package is distributed by

Parallels, so in order to obtain it, contact your Parallels account manager.

1.1 Import the package in POA (or PPA)

The BackupAgent APS package is a zip file. It’s contents meet the APS Standard 1.2.

Note: in case you install the package in PPA, you need to have php-mcrypt and php-soap

installed on the Management Node.

First step is to navigate to your ‘Service Director’ and under ‘Application Manager’ click on

‘Applications’. Now you can choose to import the package.

Now you can select the package, which is likely a local file on your disk. Make sure ‘Enabled’ is

checked and click ‘Submit’:

1

1.2 Defining resource types

After importing the package, POA must have a correct set of resource types and service

templates to provision to customers. First step is to create a BackupAgent Application resource

type. Go to:

Service Director > Provisioning Manager > Resource Types.

Now click on ‘Add new resource’ and select resource class ‘Application’. You will be prompted to

name and describe the resource type for your own reference. The next step is to pick the

BackupAgent application.

Now you see the ‘Global settings’ view, here you can configure all BackupAgent settings.

2

BA internal host:

This is the sub domain of the licensed BackupAgent server.

BA admin login:

Administrator login to access the BackupAgent server. This is
‘administrator’ by default.

BA admin
password:

Administrator password.
BA MC protocol:

Either http or https.

The following settings apply. Bold items are mandatory:

These settings allow POA to understand which BackupAgent server to contact for provisioning

online backup services.

Additional global settings must be defined, that can be overruled per branding:

3

Activate
branding:

If this is switched on the reseller login and password is used to provision
services

BA
application
name:

Name as displayed in POA to customers

BA download
suffixes:

Configurable links to download URLs of various online backup clients.

BA Storage
ID:

This is the storage location ID as defined in the BackupAgent management

console. Example is ‘1002’. You can find this by logging in the management

console and navigate to Server Settings > Storage locations tab.

Reseller login:

Login for a reseller (this will be created on-the-fly if it does not already
exist)

Reseller
password:

Password for reseller login

BA public
URL:

The URL which is used to login to the BackupAgent server and is also used
for single sign-on. By default it is the DNS of the internal host. This can be
rebranded.

Service URLs:

Four service URLs must be defined and can also be rebranded.

4