Parallels Helm - 4.2.2 Setup Guide

Parallels® Helm

Parallels Helm 4.2.2 Initial Setup Guide

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Contents

Preface 4

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

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

About Parallels Helm and This Guide 6

Setting Up Services and Resources 7

Running Parallels Helm System Setup Wizard ............................................................................. 8

Setting Up Servers Manually ....................................................................................................... 12

Setting Up Services Manually ...................................................................................................... 13

Setting Up Resources Manually .................................................................................................. 14

Setting Up Plan Templates and Plans 17

Setting Up a Plan Template Manually ......................................................................................... 18

Setting Up a Plan ......................................................................................................................... 18

Configuring Remote Servers 21

In this chapter:

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

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

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.

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.

C H A P T E R 1

Preface

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

Preformatted

On-screen computer
output in your command­line 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.

The Parallels Helm Web Hosting Control System is an extremely powerful hosting

C H A P T E R 2

About Parallels Helm and This Guide

automation solution for Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. Parallels Helm is
owned by Parallels, a global leader in virtualization and automation software.

Please take some time to read over this guide. Doing so will help you ensure that you
configure Parallels Helm correctly on your server.

The first thing you will want to do with Parallels Helm is to set up your Servers, Services

In this chapter:

Running Parallels Helm System Setup Wizard .................................................. 8

Setting Up Servers Manually ............................................................................. 12

Setting Up Services Manually ............................................................................ 13

Setting Up Resources Manually ........................................................................ 14

C H A P T E R 3

Setting Up Services and Resources

and Resources.
 Adding a Server is the first thing that needs to be done. Parallels Helm will need to

know which servers you are going to use it with, so you just need to add them into
Parallels Helm in order to begin adding Services and Resources.

 A Service is a way of integrating software that you have on your server into Parallels

Helm, so that Parallels Helm can utilize it. For example, you may use a mail server
and want Parallels Helm to automate the creation of mail accounts for your users.
To do this, you’d set up a Mail Service in Parallels Helm, which Parallels Helm can
then use. The same goes for any other supported software that you want to
integrate into Parallels Helm – you just need to add a Service for each one that is
on this particular server.

 A Resource is simply a single service, or group of services, that you can use in your

hosting plans to offer to customers. For instance, you may have added a number of
web services into Parallels Helm, and want to utilize them all. To do this, you can
simply create a Resource and then add all your web services to it. The new
Resource can then be utilized in plans and packages by your customers, which will
distribute domains between each web service, dependent on the settings you have
provided.

Parallels Helm supports multi-server environments on a scale much larger than any
other control panel. Because of this, there are a huge amount of setup combinations
available within Parallels Helm. It would be impossible to document them all here, so
the following is a generic example of a server setup you might choose in Parallels
Helm.

There are two ways of setting up your initial Services and Resources in Parallels Helm.

If you haven’t added any servers, Services or Resources yet, then the easiest way to
do this is to use Parallels Helm’s System Setup Wizard

(http://www.parallels.com/en/products/helm/docs/).