Installing Parallels Business Automation - Standard

During installation, the Parallels Business Automation - Standard installer attempts to enable firewall for a server you are installing Parallels Business Automation - Standard. Any previous firewall configurations are rewritten. The default firewall configuration allows connection for the following ports only: SSH, POP3(S), HTTP(S), SMTP, BIND.

To successfully enable firewall, the installer needs both the iptable_filter and the ipt_state modules loaded. If these modules are not loaded, the installer finishes the installation and and displays the error message saying: WARNING: Error enabling firewall. Firewall cannot be enabled. Probably you have no 'ipt_state' and/or 'iptable_filter' modules loaded.

To load the necessary iptables modules, you should provide their names as the value of the IPTABLES_MODULES parameter in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config file: The default value of this parameter is the following:

IPTABLES_MODULES="ip_tables ipt_REJECT ipt_tos ipt_limit ipt_multiport

iptable_filter iptable_mangle ipt_TCPMSS ipt_tcpmss

ipt_ttl ipt_length"

The iptable_filter module is loaded by default, thus, add the ipt_state module and save changes.

All the modules indicated will be loaded on the server startup after you reboot it.

The Parallels Business Automation - Standard installer can be ran in two modes:

• Unattended, when you just run installer and wait for installation completion. Unattended installation mode supposes installation of the typical Parallels Business Automation - Standard configuration (dummy plug-ins and one language pack - English). When installation is finished the default login and password will be shown on the screen.
• Interactive mode that includes the following steps:
  • Installer greeting screen:

    

  • Selecting the Parallels Business Automation - Standard RPMs source (install from your local computer, download the Parallels Business Automation - Standard RPMs from the remote server via FTP, or download the needed RPMs from other network site).

    

  • Adjust the Parallels Business Automation Standard distribution location. You can enter a new directory name or accept the default location:

    

  • In case the distribution directory does not exist yet, you will be offered to create it:

    

  • After this, the Installer downloads the distribution files. It will take some time, the progress bar shows the files download process.
  • Select the Parallels Business Automation - Standard version (if several versions are available in the given distribution you will be prompted and offered to select a version).

    

  • As you have selected the version, the Installer checks the server the Parallels Business Automation - Standard is to be installed. To view additional information, press the Details button:

    

  • Select which plug-ins to install. If you miss some of the desirable plug-ins, this does not make any problems, because any plug-in can be easily installed later:

    

  • The Installer checks dependencies for the selected RPMs and in case no errors detected, shows the list of RPMs selected., waiting for your confirmation:

    

  • Confirm RPMs selection and start installation:

    

  • Wait till installation is finished. View the message about successful installation and get default login credentials. The e-mail is to be used as login. Please carefully read the instructions and notes at the Installation Result screen before you press the Finish button.

    

To install the Parallels Business Automation - Standard:

1. Upload the Parallels Business Automation - Standard tarball to the computer designated for your Management Node.
2. Unpack the archive:

   Note: In the actual command, below and later in this step-by-step procedure the X should be replaced with a build number and OS abbreviation (co3 - CentOS3, el3 - for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS3, fc1 - for Fedora Core 1, fc2 - for Fedora Core 2).

   # tar -xvf hspc-3.3.3-X.tar

3. Change the working directory into the default installer location:

   cd hspc-3.3.3-X

4. Start the Parallels Business Automation - Standard installation in one of the two modes:
   • For unattended mode (no additional participation from your side is needed, the Parallels Business Automation - Standard installer will do everything by itself) run the command:

     # ./install -C

   • For interactive mode (the Parallels Business Automation - Standard installer will ask some questions you should answer to proceed with installation), run the command:

     # ./install

5. Wait until installation is finished and clean up the installer:

   # rm -rf hspc-3.3.3-X

The Parallels Business Automation - Standard installer automatically sets the default login and password for you to log in to the Provider Control Center. Your login and password appear on the screen after installation is finished and, in addition, are sent to the default e-mail address shown at the Installation Result screen.

After the necessary modules are loaded you can continue the firewall configuration process by running the following command:

/usr/sbin/hspc-config --firewall

If it is needed jto change the Parallels Business Automation - Standard Management Node hostname after the installation, you can also do this using the hspc-config utility. However before this it is necessary to change the hostname using the Unix command hostname. The hspc-config utility only updates the hostname you have set in the Parallels Business Automation - Standard and Apache configuration files.

The hspc-config utility can be used for the following operations:

Usage: hspc-config OPTION [OPTION1]...

Options:

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