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Setting Up the Server

To set the global settings for a Linux-based hosting server:

  1. On your Home page, open the Server group title menu, and select Server Settings.
  2. Specify the following:
    • Button label length. To prevent lengthy button captions in languages other than English from overlapping in the control panel, you may want to specify a limit here. Any button caption longer than the defined limit will be shortened and ended with ellipsis (...).
    • Prevent users from working with the control panel until interface screens are completely loaded. Leave this selected to avoid errors that might occur when users try to interact with control panel before is it ready.
    • Administrator's interface language. Select the language for your control panel.
    • Administrator's interface skin. Select the skin (theme) for your control panel.
    • Home page preset. Once you customize the Home page and save the settings in a template as described in Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 Administrator's Guide, section Customizing Your Home Page, you will be able to select your template here. For now, leave the default value selected.
    • Allow multiple sessions under administrator's login. By default Parallels Plesk Panel allows multiple simultaneous sessions for several users logged in to the control panel using the same login and password combination. This can be useful when delegating management functions to other users or in case if you accidentally close your browser without logging out, thus becoming unable to log in again until your session expires. You may want to switch off this capability if you do not need it.
    • Full host name.
    • Apache restart interval. Any changes to hosting account settings made through control panel take effect only when Web server is restarted. By default, Web server is set to restart not more than once in every 15 minutes. This value is optimal for most cases, and we recommend leaving this default setting. Note that when there are no changes in hosting account settings, the Web server is not forced to restart.
    • Web statistics and traffic usage statistics retention period. Specify how long the statistics should be kept on the server.
    • Items that statistical utilities should count when calculating disk space and bandwidth usage.
    • The option to forbid users from creating DNS subzones in other users' DNS superzones. We recommend that you select this option, otherwise, users will be able to create subdomains under domains belonging to other users, and set up Web sites and e-mail accounts which could be used for spamming or even phishing or identity theft.
  3. Click OK.

To set the global settings for a Windows-based hosting server:

  1. On your Home page, open the Server group title menu, and select Server Settings.
  2. Specify the following:
    • Full host name.
    • Web statistics and traffic usage statistics retention period. Specify how long the statistics should be kept on the server.
    • Items that statistical utilities should count when calculating disk space and bandwidth usage.
    • The option to forbid users from creating DNS subzones in other users' DNS superzones. We recommend that you select this option, otherwise, users will be able to create subdomains under domains belonging to other users, and set up Web sites and e-mail accounts which could be used for spamming or even phishing or identity theft.
  3. Click OK.

Now, let's set up the DNS service for serving your own domains. Setup of DNS zones for newly added domains is automated: When you add a new domain name to control panel, a zone file is automatically generated for it in accordance with the server-wide DNS zone template and your server is instructed to act as a primary (master) DNS server for the zone. If the DNS service on your Parallels Plesk Panel server will be authoritative for Web sites that you host for your customers, and you do not want to set up your own domain at this moment, skip this procedure and move on to the next procedure for configuring the mail service. However, if you are going to set up in Parallels Plesk Panel a domain name for hosting a Web site for your own organization (let's call this domain "example.com"), follow these steps:

  1. Register your domain name example.com with a domain name registrar (domain name registration authority) of your choice. Provide the registrar with the following information: nameservers ns1.example.com and ns2 example.com, and two IP addresses assigned to your server by your provider.
  2. Log in to Parallels Plesk Panel, and click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
  3. Click Create Domain.
  4. In the Domain name field, leave the WWW box selected, and type your domain name example.com. Having the www alias preceding a domain name will allow users to get to the site no matter what they type in their browsers: www.example.com and example.com will both point to the same site.
  5. From the Assign IP address menu, select the required IP address. You should select a dedicated IP address (not shared among other sites), or, in terms of Parallels Plesk Panel, exclusive IP address to be able to install an authentic digital SSL certificate for securing customers' communications to your hosting server.
  6. In the Use domain template settings menu, leave the default domain value selected. To facilitate setup of new Web sites, the control panel uses settings inherited from domain templates. After your Web site is set up, you can replace the default settings with other settings that suit your needs better.
  7. Under Switch on service, leave the Mail and DNS check boxes selected if e-mail accounts and DNS zones will be served by the mail and DNS services running on this server.
  8. Under Hosting type, select the Web site hosting option to host the Web site on this machine.
  9. Specify the username and password that will be used for uploading site content over FTP.
  10. Click Next >>.
  11. Specify the following settings:
    • SSL support. Secure Sockets Layer encryption is generally used for protecting transfer of sensitive data during online transactions on e-commerce Web sites that run on dedicated IP addresses. SSL certificates that participate in the encryption process are usually applied to a single domain name on a single IP address, therefore, each site that needs SSL protection must be hosted on a dedicated IP address. An exception to this is subdomains, which you can protect with a wildcard certificate. Installing an SSL certificate on a Web server that hosts several Web sites with different domain names on a single IP address (shared or name-based hosting) is technically possible, however, it is not recommended: the encryption will be provided, but users will get warning messages on attempt to connect to the secure site. To allow SSL encryption for this Web site, select the SSL support check box.
    • Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content (available only for Linux hosting). By default, when you publish a site through your FTP account, you need to upload the Web content that should be accessible through secure connections to the httpsdocs directory, and the content that should be accessible via plain HTTP, to the httpdocs directory. For the convenience of publishing all content through a single location – httpdocs directory on your FTP account, select the Use a single directory for housing SSL and non-SSL content check box.
    • FTP login and FTP password. Specify the username and password that will be used for publishing the site to the server through FTP. Retype the password into the Confirm Password box.
    • Hard disk quota (available only for Linux hosting). Specify the amount of disk space in megabytes allocated to the Web space for this site. This is the so-called hard quota that will not allow writing more files to the Web space when the limit is reached. At attempt to write files, an error message will show. Hard quotas should be enabled in the server's operating system, so if you see the "Hard disk quota is not supported" notice to the right of the Hard disk quota field, but would like to use the hard quotas on your server, log in to the server shell and run the quotaon -a command to enable the hard quotas.
    • Access to server over SSH (available only for Linux hosting) or Access to server over Remote Desktop (available only for Windows hosting). This allows you to upload securely Web content to the server through a Secure Socket Shell or Remote Desktop connection, however, allowing access to the server also poses a potential threat to the server security, so we recommend that you leave the Forbidden option selected.
    • Support for hosting services and scripting languages. Specify which of the following programming and scripting languages should be supported by the Web server: Active Server Pages (ASP), ASP.NET (on Windows-based hosting), Server Side Includes (SSI), PHP hypertext preprocessor (PHP), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI), Perl, Python, ColdFusion, and Miva scripting required for running Miva e-commerce solutions. By default, PHP is configured to operate in safe mode with functional restrictions. To learn more about PHP safe mode, refer to http://php.net/features.safe-mode. Some web applications may not work properly with safe mode enabled: If an application on your site fails due to safe mode, switch the safe mode off by clearing the PHP 'safe_mode' on check box in the hosting account properties (Domains > domain name > Web Hosting Settings).
    • Web statistics. To allow the Web site owner to view the information on the number of people visited his or her site and the pages of the site they viewed, select the statistics program from the Web statistics menu, and select the accessible via password protected directory /plesk-stat/webstat check box. This will install the statistics software of your choice, which will generate reports and place them into the password protected directory. The domain/web site owner will then be able to access Web statistics at the URL: https://your-domain.com/plesk-stat/webstat using his or her FTP account login and password.

      Note: When you switch from one statistics program to another, all reports created by the previously used statistics program are deleted and new reports are created in accordance with the information read from log files kept on the server. This means that if you configured the system (at Domains > domain name > Log Manager > Log Rotation) so as to keep log files only for the last month, then Web statistics will be available only for the last month.

    • Custom error documents. When visitors coming to the site request pages that the Web server cannot find, the Web server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message. If you wish to create your own error pages and use them on your Web server, select the Custom error documents check box.
    • Additional write/modify permissions (available only for Windows hosting). This option is required if Web applications under a domain will be using a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of httpdocs or httpsdocs folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the Web site security.
    • Use dedicated IIS application pool (available only for Windows hosting). This option enables the use of dedicated IIS application pool for Web applications on a domain. Using dedicated IIS application pool dramatically improves the stability of domain Web applications due to worker process isolation mode. This mode gives each Web site hosted on the server the possibility to allocate a separate process pool for execution of its Web applications. This way, malfunction in one application will not cause stopping of all the others. This is especially useful when you are using shared hosting package.
  12. Click Next >>.
  13. Specify the following settings:
    • Overuse policy. Specify what should be done to the site when disk space and traffic limits are exceeded: To block the site, select the Overuse is not allowed option. To allow the site to operate, select the Overuse is allowed option. Leave the check box Notify the domain owner about reaching the resource limit selected if you want the control panel to notify you when the resource usage limit is reached.
    • Disk space. Specify the total amount of disk space allocated to a hosting account associated with the domain. This amount is measured in megabytes. It includes disk space occupied by all files related to the domain/Web site: Web site contents, databases, applications, mailboxes, log files and backup files.
    • Traffic. Specify the amount of data in megabytes that can be transferred from the Web site during a month.
    • Subdomains. Specify the number of subdomains that can be hosted under this domain.
    • Domain aliases. Specify the total number of additional alternative domain names that can be used for this site.
    • Web users. Specify the number of personal Web pages that can be hosted for other users under his or her domain. This service is mostly used in educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff. These pages usually have web addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username. If you wish to allow execution of scripts embedded in personal Web pages, select also the Allow the web users scripting check box. For more information, refer to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 Administrator's Guide, section Hosting Personal Web Pages.
    • Microsoft FrontPage accounts (only for Windows hosting). Specify the maximum number of additional Microsoft FrontPage accounts that can be created under the domain.
    • FTP accounts (available only for Windows hosting). Specify the maximum number of additional FTP accounts that can be created under the domain.
    • Mailboxes. Specify the number of mailboxes that can be hosted under this domain.
    • Mailbox quota. Specify the amount of disk space in kilobytes that is allocated for storing e-mail messages and autoresponder attachment files to each mailbox under this domain.
    • Mail redirects. Specify the number of mail forwarders that can be used in a domain.
    • Mail groups. Specify the number of simple mailing lists that can be set up in a domain.
    • Autoresponders. Specify the number of automatic responses that can be set up in a domain.
    • Mailing lists. Specify the number of mailing lists that can run in a domain.
    • Databases. Specify the number of databases that can be hosted under this domain.
    • Databases quota (only for Windows hosting). Specify the maximum disk space amount in megabytes that MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server databases respectively can occupy under the domain.
    • ODBC connections (available only for Windows hosting). Specify the total number of ODBC connections that can be used under the domain.
    • ColdFusion DSN connections (available only for Windows hosting). Specify the total number of ColdFusion DSN connections that can be used under the domain.
    • Java applications. Specify the maximum number of Java applications or applets that the domain owner can install under a domain.
    • Shared SSL links (available only for Windows hosting). Specify the total number of shared SSL links that can be used under the domain.
    • Expiration date. Specify the term for the Web site hosting account. At the end of the term, the domain (Web site) will be suspended, its Web, FTP and mail services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users, and domain owner will not be able to log in to the control panel. Hosting accounts cannot be automatically renewed, therefore, in order to bring the hosted domain name (and Web site) back to operation, you will need to manually renew the hosting account: click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane, click the domain name your need, click the Resource Usage icon, specify another expiration date, click OK, then click the Unsuspend icon (Domains > domain name > Unsuspend).
  14. Click Finish. You are taken to the domain management screen.
  15. Correct the information in the DNS zone of your domain:
    1. In the Web Site group, click DNS Settings.
    2. Locate the records example.com NS ns.example.com and ns.example.com A <IP address>, select the respective check boxes and click Remove. Now the default records are removed, and you can specify the name servers that you have registered with your registrar.
    3. Click Add Record. In the Record type menu, select the NS value, leave the Enter domain name box blank, and in the Enter nameserver box, type ns1.example.com, then click OK.
    4. Click Add Record. In the Record type menu, select the NS value, leave the Enter domain name box blank, and in the Enter nameserver box, type ns2.example.com, then click OK.
    5. Click Add Record. In the Record type menu, select the A value, in the Enter domain name box, type the ns1 value, and in the Enter IP address box, type the first IP address of your server that you registered with a registrar, then click OK.
    6. Click Add Record. In the Record type menu, select the A value, in the Enter domain name box, type the ns1 value, and in the Enter IP address box, type the second IP address of your server that you registered with a registrar, then click OK.
  16. Specify the correct name servers in the server-wide DNS template:
    1. Click the Home shortcut in the navigation pane and then click DNS Settings. A list of record templates opens.
    2. Locate the records <domain> NS ns.<domain> and ns.<domain> A <IP>, select the respective check boxes and click Remove. Now the default records are removed, and you can specify the name servers that you have registered with your registrar.
    3. Click Add DNS Record. In the Record type menu, select the NS value, leave the Enter domain name box blank, and in the Enter nameserver box, type ns1.example.com, then click OK.

      Click Add DNS Record. In the Record type menu, select the NS value, leave the Enter domain name box blank, and in the Enter nameserver box, type ns2.example.com, then click OK.

Now the server-wide DNS settings are set up properly, your domain example.com is hosted on the server, and you can publish the site content. For instructions on publishing a Web site, refer to the Publishing a Site section of this guide.

Now, let's set up the mail service. Your control panel works in cooperation with mail server software, which provides mail services for your domains. After installation the mail server is configured automatically and is ready to serve, however, we recommend that you review the default settings to ensure that they satisfy your needs:

  1. Click the Home shortcut in the navigation pane and then click Mail Server Settings. The server-wide mail preferences screen will open on the Preferences tab.
  2. If you wish to limit the size of an e-mail message that can be sent through your server, type the desired value in kilobytes into the Maximum message size box, otherwise, leave this field blank.
  3. If you wish to protect your users from dictionary attacks by not allowing them to use simple passwords, select the Check the passwords for mailboxes in the dictionary option.

    A dictionary attack is when someone tries to find out a valid user name and password by running a program that tries different combinations of dictionary words in different languages. Dictionary attacks can be successful because many users choose their passwords carelessly.

    Note for Windows hosting users: To make this function work properly on Windows platforms, make sure that the Password must meet complexity requirements option is switched on in your server's Local Security Policy settings (the option is located in Start > Administrative Tools > Local Security Policy > Account Policies > Password policy).

  4. To protect your server against unauthorized mail relaying or injection of unsolicited bulk mail, select the Enable message submission check box to allow your customers to send e-mail messages through the port 587.

    Also notify your customers that they need to specify in their e-mail programs' settings the port 587 for outgoing SMTP connections, and be sure to allow connections to this port in your firewall settings.

  5. Select the mail relay mode.

    With closed relay the mail server will accept only e-mail addressed to the users who have mailboxes on this server. Your customers will not be able to send any mail through your outgoing SMTP server, therefore, we do not recommend closing mail relay.

    With relay after authorization, only your customers will be able to receive and send e-mail through your mail server. We recommend that you leave the authorization is required option selected, and specify allowed authentication methods:

    • POP3 authorization. With POP3 authorization, once a user has successfully authenticated to the POP server, he or she is permitted to receive and send e-mail through the mail server for the next 20 minutes (default value). You can adjust this interval by specifying another value in the lock time box.
    • SMTP authorization. With SMTP authorization, your mail server requires authorization if the e-mail message must be sent to an external address.

      Note for Windows hosting users: If you do not wish to use relay restrictions for networks that you trust, specify the network IP and mask in the Use no relay restrictions for the following networks: field (e.g., 123.123.123.123/16) and click the icon. To remove a network from the list, click the icon corresponding to the network you wish to remove.

      The relay hosts on the networks in the list are considered not to be potentially operated by spammers, open relays, or open proxies. A trusted host could conceivably relay spam, but will not originate it, and will not forge header data. DNS blacklist checks will never query for hosts on these networks.

    There is also an option to allow open relay without authorization, which, by default, is hidden from the user interface. Opening mail relay without authorization is not recommended because it allows spammers to send unsolicited mail through your server. If you want to set the open relay, log in to the server's file system, locate the file root.controls.lock in your Parallels Plesk Panel installation directory (PRODUCT_ROOT_D/var/root.controls.lock on Unix and PRODUCT_DATA_D/var/root.controls.lock on Windows platforms) and remove the line /server/mail.php3:relay_open from this file. The open relay option will show in your control panel.

  6. If you are setting up a Linux-based server, select antivirus and webmail program components that should be available to the users. If you are setting up a Windows-based server, you can select webmail and antivirus later: click Settings in the navigation pane, and then click Select Webmail and Select Antivirus.
  7. Select the mail account name format (available only on Linux hosting).

    Selecting the Use of short and full names is allowed option will allow users to log in to their mail accounts by specifying only the left part of e-mail address before the @ sign (for example, username), or by specifying the full e-mail address (for example, username@your-domain.com).

    To avoid possible authorization problems for e-mail users who reside in different domains but have identical user names and passwords, we recommend that you choose the Only use of full mail account names is allowed option.

    Once you have set your mail server to support only full mail account names, you will not be able to switch back to supporting short account names until you make sure there are no encrypted passwords for mailboxes and user accounts with coinciding user names and passwords residing in different domains.

  8. Click OK to submit any changes.

Set up spam filters. Parallels Plesk Panel supports anti-spam systems, such as SpamAssassin spam filter, and protection systems based on DomainKeys, DNS blackhole lists, Sender Policy Framework (SPF), and greylisting. This guide covers the setup of SpamAssassin spam filter. For instruction on using DomainKeys, DNS blackhole lists, Sender Policy Framework, and greylisting, refer to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 Administrator's Guide, section Setting Up Spam Protection.

To set up spam filtering with SpamAssassin:

  1. On your Home page, open the Server group title menu, and select Spam Filter Settings.
  2. To allow server-wide filtering based on the settings you define, select the Switch on server-wide SpamAssassin spam filtering check box.
  3. To let your users set their own spam filtering preferences on a per-mailbox basis, select the Apply individual settings to spam filtering check box.
  4. If you wish to adjust the amount of system resources the spam filter should use (available only for Linux hosting), type the desired value from 1 to 5 into the Maximum number of worker spamd processes to run (1-5) box (1 is the lowest load, and 5 is the highest). We recommend that you use the default value.
  5. If you wish to adjust the spam filter's sensitivity, type the desired value in the The score that a message must receive to qualify as spam box.
  6. SpamAssassin performs a number of different tests on contents and subject line of each message. As a result, each message scores a number of points. The higher the number, the more likely a message is spam. For example, a message containing the text string "BUY VIAGRA AT LOW PRICE!!!" in Subject line and message body scores 8.3 points. By default, the filter sensitivity is set so that all messages that score 7 or more points are classified as spam.
    • When your users receive lots of spam messages with the current setting, to make filter more sensitive, try setting a lesser value in the The score that a message must receive to qualify as spam box; for example, 6.
    • When your users are missing e-mails because your spam filter thinks they are junk, try reducing filter sensitivity by setting a higher value in the The score that a message must receive to qualify as spam box.
  7. To reduce the load on your Windows server, you can select the Do not filter if mail size exceeds specified size check box and specify the maximum size of the message that the spam filter will test. Recommended mail size limit is 150 - 250 Kbytes, which is usual for mail messages in HTML format with images. The size of the mail is considered critical for filter and server overload when it exceeds 500 Kbytes, which is usual for mail messages containing attachments.
  8. To make sure that the spam filter on your Windows server is not leaving some e-mail messages unchecked (this can happen if the amount of incoming mail is very large), limit the number of e-mail messages that can be checked simultaneously in the Number of threads that spam filter can create field.
  9. Specify how to mark messages recognized as spam.
  10. At the server level, you cannot set the server-wide spam filter to automatically delete spam: you can do it only on a per-mailbox basis. So, for the server-wide policy, you can choose only marking messages as spam: "X-Spam-Flag: YES" and "X-Spam-Status: Yes" headers are added to the message source by default, and if you want, the spam filter will additionally include a specific text string to the beginning of Subject line. To include a desired combination of symbols or words to the message subject, type it into the Add the following text to the beginning of subject of each message recognized as spam box. If you do not want the spam filter to modify message subject, leave this box blank. If you want to include into the subject line the number of points that messages score, type _SCORE_ in this box.
  11. If you use Parallels Plesk Panel for Windows, define the language characteristics of mail that should always pass the filter by specifying trusted languages and locales.
    • Select the required items from the boxes under Trusted languages and Trusted locales and click Add >>.
    • Letters written in the specified languages and with the defined character sets will not be marked as spam.
  12. If you do not want your users to receive e-mail from specific domains or individual senders, click the Black List tab, and then add the respective entries to the spam filter's black list:
    • To add entries to the black list, click Add Addresses. If you have a list of entries stored in a file, click Browse to specify it, and then click OK. Otherwise, select the From List option, and type the e-mail addresses into the E-mail addresses box. Place each address in one row, or separate addresses with a coma, a colon, or a white space. You can use an asterisk (*) as a substitute for a number of letters, and question mark (?) as a substitute for a single letter. For example: address@spammers.net, user?@spammers.net, *@spammers.net. Specifying *@spammers.net will block the entire mail domain spammers.net. To save the entries you added, click OK, then confirm adding, and click OK again.
    • To remove entries from the black list, under the Black List tab, select the entries and click Remove. Confirm removal and click OK.
  13. If you want to be sure that you and your users will not miss e-mail from specific senders, click the White List tab, and then add e-mail addresses or entire domains to the spam filter's white list:
    • To add entries to the white list, click Add Addresses. If you have a list of entries stored in a file, click Browse to specify it, and then click OK. Otherwise, select the From List option, and type the e-mail addresses into the E-mail addresses box. Place each address in one row, or separate addresses with a coma, a colon, or a white space. You can use an asterisk (*) as a substitute for a number of letters, and question mark (?) as a substitute for a single letter. For example: address@mycompany.com, user?@mycompany.com, *@mycompany.com. Specifying *@mycompany.com will add to the white list all e-mail addresses that are under the mycompany.com mail domain. To save the entries you added, click OK, then confirm adding, and click OK again.
    • To remove entries from the white list, under the White List tab, select the entries and click Remove. Confirm removal and click OK.
  14. Once finished with setting up the spam filter, click OK.

Now all the incoming mail will be filtered on the server side. By default, spam filter does not delete spam mail, it only adds the "X-Spam-Flag: YES" and "X-Spam-Status: Yes" headers to the message, and "*****SPAM*****" text string to the beginning of Subject line of each message recognized as spam.

If you have enabled the Apply individual settings to spam filtering option, then your users will be able to set their spam filters so as to automatically delete junk mail. They will also be able to set up their personal black and white lists of correspondents that will override the server settings, and teach the spam filter on a per-mailbox basis.

Now let's set up antivirus for protecting your customers' mailboxes from viruses.

To set up antivirus on a Windows-based hosting server:

  1. Click the Settings shortcut in the navigation pane, and then click Select Antivirus.
  2. Select the antivirus program that you want to use and click OK.
  3. Click Up Level, and then click Virus Protection Settings.
  4. From the Server-wide settings menu, select the desired scanning mode.
  5. To allow users to adjust scanning settings for incoming and outgoing mail, select the respective check boxes.
  6. Click OK.

The antivirus is now switched on. It will scan mail and delete all infected messages.

To set up antivirus on a Linux-based hosting server:

  1. Go to Home > Updates.
  2. Click your Parallels Plesk Panel version.
  3. In the list of components, select either Parallels Premium Antivirus or Kaspersky Antivirus.
  4. Click Install.

    After the installation is completed, obtain and install a license key for the selected antivirus program, as described in the following steps.

  5. Go to Home > License Management.
  6. Click Order Control Panel Add-ons. The Parallels online store page listing available add-ons opens in a new browser window.
  7. On this page, select the check box next to Parallels Premium Antivirus or Kaspersky Antivirus and click ADD TO MY BASKET.
  8. Because Parallels Plesk Panel add-ons are added to the license keys that already exist, you will need to specify the number of your license key to which you add this feature and click Submit.
  9. In the next steps, indicate the currency, number of keys, provide contact details, billing address, and payment method, and submit the form. You will be notified by e-mail when your order is processed.
  10. When you receive the e-mail notice, return to the License Management screen (Home > License Management) and click Retrieve Keys to retrieve the ordered license key. Parallels Plesk Panel License Manager will retrieve the upgraded license key from the Parallels licensing server and install it to your control panel.
  11. Go to Settings > Virus Protection Settings.
  12. Under Antivirus preferences, select the antivirus you need and click OK.

If you installed Parallels Premium Antivirus, you can switch on antivirus protection only on a per-mailbox basis, and only after you have set up mailboxes.

For instructions on setting up anti-virus protection for a mailbox, refer to Parallels Plesk Panel 9.5 Administrator's Guide, section Protecting Mailboxes From Viruses.

If you installed Kaspersky Antivirus, click the Modules shortcut in the navigation pane, click Kaspersky Antivirus, and then click the Server-wide scanning settings tab. If you need further instructions on using Kaspersky antivirus, see Kaspersky Antivirus Module Administrator's Guide at http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/docs/.

Now let's set up e-mail notification. When new user accounts or domains are created in the system, or when disk space and bandwidth allotments are overused, the control panel notifies you and the appropriate users by e-mail. With the default settings, however, domain and web site owners are not notified. We recommend that you enable resource overage notification for domain and Web site owners because they need to know what happens to their domains and Web sites.

The control panel can notify the appropriate users when:

  • New user accounts are created.
  • New domains are added.
  • Hosting accounts are expired (expiration date is defined for user accounts and Web sites separately).
  • Resource usage limits are exceeded.
  • There are new requests for assistance (trouble tickets) from your customers in Help Desk.
  • The requests are fulfilled and the trouble tickets are closed in Help Desk.
  • New comments are posted to the existing trouble tickets.
  • The closed trouble tickets are reopened because the customer has encountered the same problem again.

To view or modify the notification system settings:

  1. Go to Home > Notifications.
  2. By selecting the check boxes in the Notifications table, specify the types of control panel users or external e-mail users who should receive notices on events.

    We recommend that you also select all check boxes in the domain administrator column in order to let your resellers' customers know what happens to their Web sites.

  3. To view or edit the default notice text, click the respective icon in the Text column.

    In notices you can use tags that will be replaced with actual data (see the table below).

  4. Specify when to send the user account and domain (Web site) hosting account expiration notices. By default, such notices are sent 10 days in advance. Click OK.

The following table lists the tags (variables) that you can use in notification messages.

Event type

Tags that can be used in notices

The data that tags denote

Creation of a user account

 

<client_contact_name>

<reseller_contact_name>

<user_contact_name>

user's first and last name

<client_login>

<reseller_login>

<user_login>

user name for authorization in the control panel

<password>

user's password for authorization in the control panel

<client_company_name>

<reseller_company_name>

<user_company_name>

company name

<client_cr_date>

<reseller_cr_date>

<user_cr_date>

user account creation date

<client_phone>

<reseller_phone>

<user_phone>

phone number

<client_fax>

<reseller_fax>

<user_fax>

fax number

<client_country>

<reseller_country>

<user_country>

country

<client_state_province>

<reseller_state_province>

<user_state_province>

state or province

<client_city>

<reseller_city>

<user_city>

 

 

city

<client_postal_ZIP_code>

<reseller_postal_ZIP_code>

<user_postal_ZIP_code>

postal or ZIP code

<client_address>

<reseller_address>

<user_address>

address

<client_id>

<reseller_id>

<user_id>

unique identifier assigned by the system

<hostname>

host name for access to control panel

Expiration of a user account

 

<client_login>

<reseller_login>

<user_login>

user name for authorization in the control panel

<client_contact_name>

<reseller_contact_name>

<user_contact_name>

user's first and last name

<client_expiration_date>

<reseller_expiration_date>

<user_expiration_date>

user account expiration date

Addition of a new domain name to the server

 

<domain_name>

domain name

<client_login>

<reseller_login>

<user_login>

user name for authorization in the control panel

<client_contact_name>

<reseller_contact_name>

<user_contact_name>

user's first and last name

<dom_id>

unique identifier assigned by the system

<ip>

IP address the domain is hosted on

Domain (Web site) hosting account expiration

 

<domain_name>

domain name

<client_login>

<reseller_login>

<user_login>

user name for authorization in the control panel

<client_contact_name>

<reseller_contact_name>

<user_contact_name>

user's first and last name

<dom_id>

unique identifier assigned by the system

<domain_expiration_date>

domain hosting account expiration date

Resource overage

 

<domain_name>

domain name

<client_login>

<reseller_login>

<user_login>

user name for authorization in the control panel

<client_contact_name>

<reseller_contact_name>

<user_contact_name>

user's first and last name

<disk_usage>

information about disk space usage

<disk_space_limit>


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