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To manage your Virtual Private Servers, you need special tools installed on your host:
For quota support inside VPS, please refer to
VPS Quota Reconfiguration guide.
Linux Virtual Server Utilities
These are core VPS tools from the original
Linux VServer project.
Currently, VPS tools version 0.22-1 are in use.
You can download the package from the following location:
http://www.freevps.com/download/releases/vserver-0.22-1.i386.rpm
FreeVPS Tools
FreeVPS tools provide additional VPS features, such as:
- Imposing limits on memory and disk usage, processes, network traffic;
- VPS root and context management;
- Setting VPS file attributes;
You can download the tarball with tools sources or rpm package from:
a) latest snapshots:
http://www.freevps.com/download/snapshots/
b) latest stable release:
http://www.freevps.com/download/releases/
# wget http://www.freevps.com/download/releases/freevps-tools.tar.gz
# wget http://www.freevps.com/download/rpms/SRPMS/freevps-tools-1.1-1.src.rpm
# wget http://www.freevps.com/download/rpms/i386/freevps-tools-1.1-1.i386.rpm
Core FreeVPS tools contain the following utilites:
vserver_limit - manages VPS limits:
• total memory limit
• resident memory size limit
• process count limit
• disk usage quota
• file handles limit
• tcp sockets limit
vserver_ctl - manages VPS process settings:
• create/destroy a context
• enter a context
• running status
• enable/disable creating news processes in context
• send signal to all processes in context
showattrib, setattrib
- manage files' and directories' additional attributes:
• context tag
• flag for files shared between contexts
• immutable flag
vdu - calculates disk usage for a context
vifconfig - manages virtual network devices:
• attach/detach virtual network devices
• add/remove allowed IPs on device
You may also read man for each of these utilities to get more details on their
syntax and functionality.
H-Sphere VPS Scripts
H-Sphere VPS tools require VServer and FreeVPS
tools to be installed on a VPS host server.
These tools serve to create and manage virtual server environment, namely:
• to install core RPMS packages for VPS;
• to create and install additional packages on VPS;
• to configure basic and additional services;
• to assign/remove IPs to/from existing VPS;
• to start/stop/suspend/resume VPS;
• to provide VPS management via H-Sphere Control Panel interface.
Read the H-Sphere VPS Scripts
guide for the comprehensive description of H-Sphere VPS scripts.
You can download stable H-Sphere VPS tools/scripts release packages from the PSoft site:
http://www.psoft.net/shiv/HS/VPS/hsphere-vps-x.x-n.i386.rpm
See more on VPS tools and scripts configuration
in the H-Sphere VPS Installation guide:
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