Upgrading Parallels Plesk Panel through Parallels Products Installer
To upgrade your Parallels Plesk Panel software through Parallels Products Installer:
1. Download the latest version of Parallels Products Installer that suits your operating system from http://www.parallels.com/en/download/plesk9/ and save it on your server’s hard drive.
2. Run Parallels Products Installer
To update or upgrade Parallels Plesk Panel through the web interface of Parallels Products Installer, run the following command:
# ./parallels_products_installer_file_name –web-interface
Open your browser and enter http://hostname:8447/ or http://IP-address:8447/ in the address bar. The Parallels Product Installer web interface will open. Log in as root.
To update or upgrade Parallels Plesk Panel through the command line interface of Parallels Products Installer, run the following command:
# ./parallels_products_installer_file_name
3. Follow the instructions on the screen to perform the upgrade.
Predefined Firewall Rules Specifications in Plesk Panel
The following table lists the system services to which you can restrict access using the Firewall’s predefined rules.
Parallels Plesk Panel administrative interface TCP 8443
Samba (file sharing on Windows networks) UDP 137, UDP 138, TCP 139, TCP 445
Parallels Plesk Panel VPN UDP 1194
WWW server TCP 80, TCP 443
FTP server TCP 21
SSH (secure shell) server TCP 22
SMTP (mail sending) server TCP 25, TCP 465
POP3 (mail retrieval) server TCP 110, TCP 995
IMAP (mail retrieval) server TCP 143, TCP 993
Mail password change service TCP 106
MySQL server TCP 3306
PostgreSQL server TCP 5432
Tomcat administrative interface TCP 9008, TCP 9080
Domain name server UDP 53, TCP 53
Managing System Policies in Plesk Panel
System policies define what to do with all incoming, outgoing and transit communications that do not match the explicitly defined rules. The system policies are usually displayed at the bottom of the list of rules.
To allow or deny communications of specific type:
Go to Modules > Firewall > Edit Firewall Configuration.
Click the icon to the left of the policy name you want to change. If the policy currently allows all connections, clicking this icon will prohibit all connections and vice versa.
To apply the changes, click Activate, and then click Activate again.
Source : http://parallels.com/Plesk/
Install the Parallels Plesk Panel Firewall module through the command line
Note: Parallels Plesk Panel Firewall module and other modules that come with Parallels Plesk Panel are located in the directory /opt/modules of Parallels Plesk Panel distribution.
You can install the Parallels Plesk Panel Firewall module to the Parallels Plesk Panel server in two ways: from the Parallels Plesk Panel interface (recommended), and from the command line.
Login as root to the server, where Parallels Plesk Panel is installed.
Run the command /plesk_installation_directory/admin/bin/modulemng –install –file=[plesk_firewall_module_filename], where ‘plesk_installation_directory’ is the directory you installed Parallels Plesk Panel to.
Example:
/usr/local/psa/admin/bin/modulemng –install –file=/opt/modules/firewall.rpm
The database utility is used to manage databases and database users in Plesk through CLI. By using this utility, you can perform the following tasks:
* creating or deleting databases
* adding and removing database users
* adding or removing database access records for database users
* editing database user credentials
* setting charset for PostgreSQL databases
Example
The following command creates database buddies on a database server accessible at the IP address and port number 192.0.2.78:3838 and prints the created Plesk database ID:
# ./database –create buddies -domain example.com -server 192.0.2.78:3838 -print-id
To create the database buddies for the domain example.com on the local MySQL server:
# ./database –create buddies -domain example.com -type mysql
