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WHMCS Integration Manual

Manual for installing and configuring WHMCS module

1. Introduction

BackupAgent has integrated its service as a module into WHMCS v5 and higher. Service Providers

who use WHMCS can now easily roll-out online backup services using BackupAgent and provision

those services through the WHMCS interface. This shortens time-to-market significantly and

increases possible margins and return-on-investment.

1.1 Seamless integration

The integration was due to popular demand by WHMCS customers. Since BackupAgent supports

authentication and provisioning using and API, integrating BackupAgent’s services with WHMCS

is a straightforward and seamless effort.

1.2 Easy provisioning

Service Providers can provision BackupAgent subscriptions and add custom subscription plans

using WHMCS as a central provisioning platform.

2. Installation

BackupAgent provides a zip file containing the module binaries which must be copied to the main

WHMCS folder on the server(s). The zip file contains two subfolders in \whmcs\modules.

 Unpack and upload the module to the WHCMS folder

 Copy the ‘backupagent_owned_storage’ folder to \whmcs\modules\addons
 Copy the ‘backupagent’ folder to \whmcs\modules\server

 Login to WHMCS as administrator and go to Setup -> Addon Modules

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 You can now activate the BackupAgent Owned Storage addon and assign its privileges to

your administrator group:

2.1 Connection to BackupAgent server(s)

The next step is to connect the module to the BackupAgent server(s) in the datacenter. You need

to specify a new server for this by going to Setup > Products/Services > Servers

 Add a new Server Group
 Add a new Server to the newly created Server Group
 Now you will see this form:

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 You need to set the following items, which are mandatory:

 Name: Friendly name of this server
 Hostname: DNS which hosts the BackupAgent server(s)

 IP Address: Current IP address of the BackupAgent server(s)
 The remaining settings are not mandatory and for administrative purposes only.
 The next step is to set login credentials for the server:

 The type should be set to ‘BackupAgent’
 The username and password should be set:

 This can either be your administrator password (of the BackupAgent management

console) or

 A group login username and password in case you want to assign this server to a

reseller. You can define any server for an existing reseller with the same host settings

and reseller login credentials.

After completing these steps the BackupAgent services can be provisioned to customers.

Note: SOAP and Mcrypt are not standard compiled modules in a WHM webserver with

EasyApache. Please remove the mcrypt_module_get_algo_key_size string from the

disable_functions at php.ini* file and make sure that your server's PHP installation has the SOAP

extension enabled.

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