## Plesk Nodes Specific Settings

A Plesk node properties are grouped under several tabs:

Summary

Availability. Current status of a node in respect to establishing connection to it. Unavailable node usually means some kind of hardware or network problems on a node.

Registration Status:

- Registered - the connection with a Hardware Node was established successfully, a Hardware Node is fully manageable;
- Conflicts - the data found on a node does not correspond to the data existing in Parallels Business Automation - Standard database or some other problems occurred during registration. To resolve the data conflicts, you can use the special tool provided in Parallels Business Automation - Standard - Conflicts Resolver.
- Unregistered - the connection with a Hardware Node is not established but a Hardware Node configuration is stored in the Parallels Business Automation - Standard database. Such a Hardware Node cannot be managed from Parallels Business Automation - Standard web-based interface.

Allow new accounts. Whether new Parallels Business Automation - Standard accounts are allowed to create subscriptions on this node. Green tick - yes, red cross - no. You can change this setting under the General Settings tab.

Accounts. The number of accounts that currently have subscription(s) on this node.

Plesk Domains. The number of Plesk domains currently existing on this node. Domains are sorted by hosting plans, such as: the name of hosting plan - the number of domains based on this hosting plan.

Plesk Clients. The number of Plesk clients currently existing on this node. Clients are sorted by hosting plans, such as: the name of hosting plan - the number of clients based on this hosting plan.

General Settings

Here you can:

- Transparently log in to the Plesk Admin Control Panel for the node - just click on the Login to Plesk link.
- View or hide Plesk Administrator password. To view password, click on the Show Password link. To hide the password again, click on the Hide Password link.

To change password, and other settings click the Edit button:

Attention: The Plesk node General Settings form includes some advanced settings (network configuration and Plesk virtual node (Container) related settings). We do not recommend to change these settings if you are not absolutely sure what must be entered instead of the existing values.

- Hardware Node name. Here you can edit the Plesk node friendly name (this is not a hostname, this name is just used in Parallels Business Automation - Standard to refer to the node.
- Allow new accounts. Check this box to allow creating clients or domains on this node for new Parallels Business Automation - Standard accounts, i.e., for accounts that do not have any subscriptions on this node yet. To disallow this, clear the box.
- Maximum number of domains. If you want to limit the allowable number of domains to be created on the node, then enter the maximal allowed number of domains into this field. Leave the field empty to impose no limitations on the number of domains on this node.
- You can type a new Plesk Administrator password for this node into the two fields below (type and retype the password).
- Synchronize DNS. This box defines whether the changes made to DNS configuration on the Plesk node will be automatically synchronized with Parallels Business Automation - Standard DNS (and conversely) or not. We recommend to keep this box checked.
- Synchronize domains and clients. This setting enables or disables automated synchronization of Plesk domains and clients on the node with Parallels Business Automation - Standard database. If the box is cleared, then synchronization is disabled and manual creation of Plesk client or domain on the Plesk node will not be noticed by Parallels Business Automation - Standard. We strongly recommend to keep this box checked.
- Network settings:
  - Hostname. Plesk node hostname. If you are not sure what hostname must be entered, leave this field as is. If the field contents was unintentionally deleted and you do not know what to enter instead, you can enter the Plesk node IP address. Later you can change the IP into the correct hostname. Do not enter the incorrect hostname into this field, because this will break the transparent logging in to the Plesk Admin Panel from Parallels Business Automation - Standard interface.
  - IP address. Plesk node IP address. Here you can reassign another IP address to the Plesk node. To do this, just enter this new IP into this field. Important: A new IP address must be from the set of IPs assigned to the node and this IP address must be shared. After IP address reassignment, all Plesk domains existing on the node and all domains created in future on this node will be moved to this new IP address.
- Plesk Container Properties. This group of fields appear only for virtual Plesk nodes, i.e., the nodes that are installed inside a Virtuozzo Containers:
  - Hardware Node. The friendly name of Virtuozzo node that hosts the Container running Plesk Server Administrator. You may need to re-specify Hardware Node if Plesk Container was migrated on another Hardware Node.
  - Container ID. Numerical identifier of Container that runs Plesk Server Administrator. For example, you may need to re-specify the Container ID if a Container was migrated to another Hardware Node and started there with another ID.
- Owner. The name of account owning the Plesk node. If no owner is specified, then the node is assigned to Provider account. Otherwise, the name of owning Reseller account is shown. Please note that if any clients or domains have been already created on the node, then it is not possible to reassign the node to another account, because this will cause a lot of conflicts in billing.
- Hardware. The Plesk node hardware configuration. You can adjust any parameter.
- Comment. Free-form comment.
- Maintenance. If you need to take a certain hardware node offline for maintenance or upgrade you can bring a Hardware Node into a special maintenance mode that temporarily disables management of Plesk domains hosted on this Hardware node from the Control Panel:
  - You can check the Do not allow customers to manage their domains from CP box to disable Plesk domains management from Control Panel.

    Note: This setting affects domains hosted on the selected Hardware Node only. Note that you can compose a Mass Mailer for customers on that specific Hardware Node.

  - In the Warning Message field you can type the text of the system message to be shown to your customers when domains management is disabled but they try to perform an operation under domain(s) You can leave this field empty to use the default system message.

Accounts

Accounts registered in Parallels Business Automation - Standard accounts that own Plesk clients or domains hosted on this node are enlisted under this tab.

Plesk Domains

Plesk domains existing on the node ate enlisted here.

Plesk Clients

Plesk clients existing on the node ate enlisted here.

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