### Activating Dedicated Server Subscription

To activate the Dedicated subscription go to the Service Director - Servers Manager - Dedicated Servers.

Dedicated server subscriptions can be activated only manually.

Say, you have created and offered in your store the dedicated hosting plan for such a server. When a customer places and pays an order for this hosting plan, the subscription is automatically created in Parallels Business Automation - Standard. This subscription is in the Pending state, because it awaits for particular dedicated server assignment.

In hosting plans, dedicated servers configuration is defined by custom attribute values specified for a hosting plan.

When you assign a dedicated server to a subscription, Parallels Business Automation - Standard automatically checks every item of a corresponding order in respect to an ordered server configuration and in case an ordered configuration does not match an assigned server configuration, Parallels Business Automation - Standard warns you. In this case, you can check the available dedicated servers configuration, if needed, upgrade or downgrade one of them to match the ordered configuration, then adjust the dedicated server registration parameters in Parallels Business Automation - Standard or register a server and after this, try to activate a dedicated subscription once again.

Advanced custom attributes system and dedicated servers configuration auto-check during subscription activation considerably facilitates dedicated hosting provisioning:

- All third-party servers in your data center can be accounted and registered in Parallels Business Automation - Standard database in accordance with servers actual location and configuration.
- Automated server configuration check during dedicated subscription activation facilitates dedicated servers assignment and servers accounting.
- Automated billing for dedicated hosting upgrade: You can specify a dedicated server configuration in hosting plan and allow a customer to select each parameter within a certain range during initial purchase and later order upgrade or downgrade for his/her dedicated server by selecting one or another option in a corresponding custom attribute (disk space, RAM, etc.).

If a hardware Node was not registered yet, then register it. Select a Hardware Node and edit its General Settings: assign an owner account and create a subscription (or assign a server to existing subscription).

If an assigned server configuration does not match an ordered configuration, Parallels Business Automation - Standard allows assigning a server anyway, but leaves a server in Not Synchronized status till a server configuration will be brought in correspondence with an ordered configuration.

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