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Changes in Parallels Plesk Panel 10

Control Panel and Auxiliary Users : The new Control Panel provides simpler UI for customers and also introduces auxiliary users able to access Control Panel together with customer. The auxiliary users replace former Domain Administrator and mail users, the amount of operations available to the new Control Panel users is defined using a flexible system of user privileges.

Multi-domain hosting : The concept of a domain has been replaced with a concept of a subscription – a hosting unit able to run multiple sites (domains and subdomains) over given resources and services. As the subscriptions belong to customers, the domain administrator role is removed. However, a customer is able to create user accounts that are eligible to manage all the customer’s sites.

Multiple FTP accounts :Customer can create multiple FTP accounts within a single subscription, defining which part of the subscription files can be accessed by each.Integrated

SiteBuilder 5.0 : SiteBuilder 5.0 (former Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder) is the Panel component that is 100% focused on fast and efficient creation of websites.

Reference : http://parallels.com/

Tags: 10, changes, Panel, Parallels, plesk

Parallels Business Automation Standard 3.4 does not support the licenses for Parallels Plesk Panel 10

To make Parallels Plesk Panel 10 licenses issuing possible, we need perform the following actions:

Note: This solution should be installed on Parallels Business Automation - Standard 3.4 only. You can damage your installation if you install it on the earlier version.

1. Download install.sh on Parallels Business Automation Standard node.

2. Run install.sh script

Reference: http://parallels.com

Tags: Automation, business, Panel, Parallels, plesk, standard

Parallels Plesk Panel 10 - System Requirements

Before upgrade, run the Environment Pre-Check Script to insure that the environment and system components are ready to upgrade to Plesk 10.

http://blog.serverbuddies.com/tool-for-checking-issues-before-upgrade-or-migration-to-parallels-plesk-10x-version/

Hardware Requirements:

Parallels Plesk Panel 10 for Linux
266 MHz Processor
512 MB of RAM (1 GB when hosting many accounts; 768MB minimum when also using SiteBuilder)
10 GB Hard Disk

NOTE:

The number of Parallels Virtuozzo containers with Plesk 10 can cost-effectively grow with more RAM on the Server. We recommend adding RAM.
PHP 5 is required for the brand new SiteBuilder.
Fedora has been discontinued as a supported Operating System for Plesk 10.

Supported Linux Operating Systems

* CentOS 5.x, 4.x (version 5.5 recommended)
* CentOS 5.x for AMD64 (version 5.5 recommended)
* RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x,4x (version 5.5 recommended)
* RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x for AMD64 (version 5.5 recommended)
* Ubuntu 10.04, 8.04 LTS
* Ubuntu 10.04 for AMD 64 (also 8.04 LTS)
* openSUSE 11.1, 11.0, 10.3
* openSUSE 11.1 for AMD64 (also 11.0, 10.3)
* Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, 4.0
* Debian GNU/Linux 5 for AMD 64 (also 4.0)
* CloudLinux 5
* CloudLinux 5 for AMD64

Tags: Panel, Parallels, plesk, Requirements, System

Shell description is missed in crontab files after migration.

After the migration to the Parallels Plesk Panel 10.x, the cron jobs are not executed by chrootsh.

The SHELL value in the crontab is not copied from the target to the destination server during the migration. Say, servers A and B are configured to use chroot shell. When migrating a customer account with crontab and the SHELL value is omitted:

To resolve this issue, Determine the path to the chrootsh utility with the following command:

Add the SHELL value to the crontab with the command:

Reference : http://parallels.com

Tags: crontab, description, Files, migration, missed, shell

Mailbox disk usage in Parallels Plesk Panel.

Problem: Parallels Plesk Panel shows incorrect statistics for the mailboxes on the domains. Domain mailboxes use less disk space then it is shown at the Control Panel. Disk usage for the mailbox is shown even if mail service is disabled on the domain.

Issue was discovered in Parallels Plesk Panel version 10.0.1.

In order to fix the issue apply hot-fix on the server.

Replace the file $PRODUCT_ROOT_D/admin/smb/application/controllers/StatisticsController.php with the file from the attachment below.

http://kb.parallels.com/Attachments/14688/Attachments/StatisticsController_linux.zip

The installation procedure is at http://kb.parallels.com/en/8083

After that recalculate statistics for the domains with the statistics utility. Statistics utility can be found in directory e $PRODUCT_ROOT_D/admin/sbin/.

Reference : http://parallels.com/

Tags: disk, mailbox, Panel, Parallels, plesk, usage