Parallels Presence Builder - 11.5 User Guide
Parallels Operations
Automation 5.4
Parallels Presence Builder Integration
Revision 1.33 (July 29, 2013)
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Contents
Preface ....................................................................................................................... 4
Documentation Conventions ............................................................................................. 4
Typographical Conventions ..................................................................................................... 4
General Conventions ............................................................................................................... 5
Feedback .......................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ............................................................................................................... 6
Integration Overview .......................................................................................................... 7
System Requirements ....................................................................................................... 8
Deploying Parallels Presence Builder for PA ........................................................... 9
Licensing ........................................................................................................................ 10
Pre-Deployment Actions ................................................................................................. 10
Importing Parallels Presence Builder for PA Application ................................................... 12
Creating 'Parallels Presence Builder for PA' External Provisioning Attribute ..................... 12
Adding Parallels Presence Builder for PA Specific Resource Types ................................. 13
Selecting Hosts for Deployment ...................................................................................... 14
Creating Instance of Parallels Presence Builder for PA .................................................... 15
Saving URL and Password of Installed Parallels Presence Builder for PA ........................ 15
Preparing Parallels Presence Builder Service Template ....................................... 16
Pre-deployment Actions .................................................................................................. 16
Importing Parallels Presence Builder Application ............................................................. 17
Creating 'Hosting for Parallels Presence Builder Sites' Attribute ...................................... 17
Adding Specific Resource Types ..................................................................................... 18
Creating Physical Hosting Resource Type for Linux ............................................................... 19
Creating Physical Hosting Resource Type for Windows ......................................................... 19
Preparing Service Template ............................................................................................ 20
Known Limitations ................................................................................................... 21
Common Operations ............................................................................................... 22
Installing a Package on the Host ..................................................................................... 23
Index ........................................................................................................................ 29
C HAPTER 1
Preface
This section contains introductory notes and important information about typographical
conventions used in this document.
In This Chapter
Documentation Conventions ..................................................................................... 4
Feedback .................................................................................................................. 5
Documentation Conventions
Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation
conventions used in it.
Typographical Conventions
Formatting convention Type of Information Example
Special Bold
Italics
Monospace
CAPITALS Names of keys on the keyboard. SHIFT, CTRL, ALT
KEY+KEY Key combinations for which the
Items you must select, such as
menu options, command buttons,
or items in a list.
Titles of chapters, sections, and
subsections.
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 names of commands, files,
and directories.
user must press and hold down
one key and then press another.
Go to the Resources tab.
Refer to the Managing Your
Account chapter.
Type a placeholder into the From
field, e.g.
@@Order_Vendor_Account_BillingC
ontact_Email@
payflow.verisign.com
CTRL+P, ALT+F4
Preface
General Conventions
Be aware of the following conventions used in this book.
Modules in this guide are divided into sections, which, in turn, are subdivided into
subsections. For example, Documentation Conventions is a section, and General
Conventions is a subsection.
When following steps or using examples, be sure to type double-quotes ("), left single-quotes
(`), and right single-quotes (') exactly as shown.
The key referred to as RETURN is labeled ENTER on some keyboards.
Commands in the directories included into the PATH variable are used without absolute path
names. Steps that use commands in other, less common, directories show the absolute
paths in the examples.
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 to userdocs@parallels.com
your report the guide's title, chapter and section titles, and the fragment of text in which you
have found an error.
. Please include in
5
C HAPTER 2
Introduction
In This Chapter
Integration Overview .................................................................................................. 7
System Requirements ............................................................................................... 8
Introduction
Integration Overview
Parallels Presence Builder for PA is а site creation and content management solution
produced by Parallels. Parallels Presence Builder for PA provides unique capabilities for nontechnical users who want to create, publish, and maintain their web sites without any
knowledge of HTML or other programming languages. The Parallels Presence Builder for PA
website content management solution allows wide groups of users to create their websites
with minimum efforts.
Parallels Presence Builder 11.5 is integrated with POA using two APS packages:
• Parallels Presence Builder for PA - main application, which allows editing and
publishing websites.
• Parallels Presence Builder - connector package, that can be installed on customer's
domain to provide publishing functionality.
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Introduction
System Requirements
General system requirements:
•
POA 5.4.14 or later with APS and Linux Shared Hosting modules.
POA 5.4.14 or later with APS and Windows Shared Hosting modules.
•
Important: Parallels Presence Builder of version 11.5 will not work with POA of version older than
5.4.14.
Parallels Presence Builder for PA system requirements:
• 10 gigabytes of free disk space.
• 1 gigabyte of RAM.
• Linux Shared Hosting or Linux Shared Hosting NG.
• MySQL 5.0 (or later) server.
• Exclusive IPv4 address
Important: Enable sw-engine support on the host, where Parallels Presence Builder for PA
Application will be installed. This package is required for correct work of the application.
You can install Parallels Presence Builder for PA on any Linux Shared Hosting host (Legacy
Apache Web Server, Web Server NG or Web Cluster NG). Parallels Presence Builder
package can be installed on (customers sites can be published to) any LInux or Windows
Shared Hosting host with IIS 7.0 or 7.5.
Make sure that POA websites can be resolved from the node on which Parallels Presence
Builder for PA will be installed; and the node, where customer sites will be published.
Note: Please, configure firewall on Web Server(s), that will host Parallels Presence Builder for PA,
to allow connections to Parallels licensing servers on port 5224. These measures are required to
enable automatic update of the Parallels Presence Builder for PA license.
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C HAPTER 3
Deploying Parallels Presence Builder for PA
In This Chapter
Licensing................................................................................................................... 10
Pre-Deployment Actions ........................................................................................... 10
Importing Parallels Presence Builder for PA Application ............................................. 12
Creating 'Parallels Presence Builder for PA' External Provisioning Attribute ............... 12
Adding Parallels Presence Builder for PA Specific Resource Types ........................... 13
Selecting Hosts for Deployment ................................................................................ 14
Creating Instance of Parallels Presence Builder for PA ............................................... 15
Saving URL and Password of Installed Parallels Presence Builder for PA................... 15
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