New Install assistance

[Sentinel82]

Hello

I am fairly new to Parallels' software and am looking for some assistance regarding Plesk and Virtuozzo. I have a dedicated server running CentOS 5.4 and am looking to set up some VPS servers on it. Through my research, I've come across using Virtuozzo for the VEs and Plesk for some of the other management/billing/client access purposes. I've been trying to find some documentation on how they should both be installed together, but have not had any luck so far.

I've tried installing Virtuozzo and then Plesk, and the other way around, but have problems every time. The 1st one will work with no problems (regardless of which was installed first), but when I install the second application, they both stop working properly.

Can someone help point me in the proper direction on how to get both of them installed and working together properly? Basically I want to have Plesk Panel with the Billing module to interface with Virtuozzo, and also so the clients will have access to Plesk on their individual VPS (if requested) to control it. Or, is there a completely different way to do what I'm looking for?

Any and all help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[IgorG]

Well. Let me to clarify a little bit.
First of all you should install Virtuozzo on your server. Then you should install all necessary OS and application templates there. After that you will be able to create Virtuozzo containers based on installed OS templates there and install Plesk, Plesk Billing and other application templates to these containers. As result you will have separate virtual containers with own hostnames, IPs and Plesk inside. It is just common description. More details you can find in Virtuozzo docs.
Let me know if you have any other questions about it.

 

[Sentinel82]

Thanks for your quick reply on that. I've got Virtuozzo installed on the host, I've downloaded and installed OS templates and app templates for Plesk and got them all installed on a test container. I can access part of the Plesk control panel by going to the IP of the container, but I don't see the full interface. What I'm seeing seems to be what a customer would see, just the control of their VE. How do I see the full interface where I can access the extra modules (billing, sitebuilder, etc)?

 

[IgorG]

You should install these components additionally if you want it. Look at Components and check that these components are installed there.

 

[Sentinel82]

The components are installed as far as I can tell, but when accessing Plesk on the container, I do not see any way to access the extra functions. Plus the client shouldn't have access to the same functions that I have access to in Plesk

 

[IgorG]

Are you sure that you have admin's permissions for your login account? Try to login as admin and with password from

cat /etc/psa/.psa.shadow

You can try to disable Virtuozzo environment for Pleesk Panel with disabling offline management gor Virtuozzo container with something like

vzctl set CT_ID --offline_management no --save