Parallels Helm - 4.2.2 Administrator’s Guide
Parallels® Helm
APS Controller Administrator Guide
Helm 4.2.2
Revision 1.0
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Contents
Preface 4
About This Guide ........................................................................................................................... 4
Typographical Conventions ........................................................................................................... 4
Feedback ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Preparing System for APS Provisioning 6
Installing APS Controller Module ................................................................................................... 7
Configuring System Services for APS Provisioning ...................................................................... 7
PHP ..................................................................................................................................... 8
ASP.NET ............................................................................................................................. 8
Microsoft SQL Server .......................................................................................................... 9
MySQL Server ..................................................................................................................... 9
Adding APS Support to Helm System 10
Creating Services for APS Provisioning ...................................................................................... 11
Creating and Updating Hosting Plans with APS Support ............................................................ 13
Managing APS Application Packages 16
Installing Application Package ..................................................................................................... 17
Configuring Application Package ................................................................................................. 18
Removing Application Package ................................................................................................... 18
Managing APS Application Instances 19
Installing Application Instances on Domain ................................................................................. 20
Reconfiguring Application Instance ............................................................................................. 21
Uninstalling Applications from Domain ........................................................................................ 22
In this chapter:
About This Guide ............................................................................................... 4
Typographical Conventions ............................................................................... 4
Feedback .......................................................................................................... 5
Formatting convention
Type of Information
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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
About This Guide
This guide is addressed to Parallels Helm administrators and system administrators
who want to empower their Parallels Helm hosting service with the APS support.
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.
Preface 5
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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
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output in your commandline sessions; source
code in XML, C++, or
other programming
languages.
# ls –al /files
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Preformatted
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contrasted with on-screen
computer output.
# cd /root/rpms/php
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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
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This chapter answers the following questions:
In this chapter:
Installing APS Controller Module ....................................................................... 7
Configuring System Services for APS Provisioning ........................................... 7
C H A P T E R 2
Preparing System for APS Provisioning
How to install APS Controller in Parallels Helm?
How to configure system services and components for proper APS provisioning?
Preparing System for APS Provisioning 7
Installing APS Controller Module
In this section:
PHP ................................................................................................................... 8
ASP.NET ........................................................................................................... 8
Microsoft SQL Server ........................................................................................ 9
MySQL Server ................................................................................................... 9
The APS Controller module is a part of default Parallels Helm installation, so normally
you do not need to install it.
To verify the APS Controller module is installed:
1. Run the Parallels Helm Configuration Tool, a link to which is located
either on the Desktop or in the tools sub-folder usually located at
C:\Program Files\Parallels\Helm4\Tools.
2. Click Installed Modules.
3. Scroll down the list of modules available and locate the APS Controller
module under the Provider Extensions title.
4. Verify the module checkbox is selected, and its status is “Installed, Up
To Date”.
In case the module is not installed, select the corresponding checkbox and click
Install/Uninstall Modules.
Configuring System Services for APS
Provisioning
Due to the APS specifics, APS Controller efficiency depends on correct configuration of
system services, such as configuration of PHP, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, etc.
For example, application package may require some PHP property to be set to a
particular value, and so on. This means that proper APS Controller functioning often
may require system administrator intervention in order to fine-tune the current
configuration according to various requirements of APS applications.
The following sub-sections contain common system prerequisites that should be
satisfied
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