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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.
FreeVPS Tools
FreeVPS tools provide basic virtual context tools, such as:
- virtual context management:
- virtual context limits control:
- configure virtual network interfaces:
- calculate total file size on the virtual server;
- set/show extended attributes of the file in virtual context;
- tool to display top CPU processes for virtual context;
- VPS management script.
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/rpms/RH_73
http://www.freevps.com/download/rpms/RH_EL
Core FreeVPS tools contain the following utilities:
vserver_ctl
• create/destroy new virtual context structure in the kernel
• set/remove capabilities for virtual context
• allow/disallow processes creation at virtual context
• migrate from the root context to the selected virtual context
• execute commands in virtual context
• display virtual context run status and brief context statistics
• send signals to all processes in virtual server
vserver_limit - manages VPS limits:
• virtual memory usage limit for processes run in virtual context
• resident memory usage limit for processes run in virtual context
• limit on the number of processes run in virtual context
• disk usage limit for the virtual context
• limit on the number of the virtual context file handles
• tcp connections limit to virtual context
• root directory for virtual 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 interfaces
• assign/disable IP addresses for using at virtual network interfaces
• set virtual network interface shaper speed
• set various flags to virtual interface
vtop - display top CPU processes for virtual context
vps - shows brief information about services running by contexts
vserver - script to control VPS servers:
• start/stop/restart VPS
• enter VPS and start existing there shell
• execute commands in VPS
• return VPS status
You may also read man for each of these utilities to get more details on their
syntax and functionality.
To build latest freevps-tools, please read building freevps-tools binaries.
H-Sphere VPS Scripts
H-Sphere VPS tools require 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 basic VPS - base template;
• to add, delete, create and install additional templates on VPS.
Following templates are available:
samba-server - Windows File Server;
ftp-server - FTP Server;
pgsql-server - Postgresql SQL Database;
web-server - Web Server;
dns-server - DNS Name Server;
mysql-server - MySQL Database;
mail-server - Mail Server;
news-server - News Server;
system-tools - System Tools;
development-tools - Development Tools;
perl-full - Perl programing language modules;
Read more about
H-Sphere VPS templates
• to configure basic and additional services;
• to create required system devices;
• to create/destroy virtual network interfaces or virtual network interface aliases;
• to assign/remove/up/down reconfigure IPs on existing VPS's virtual network interfaces;
• to start/stop/suspend/resume VPS;
• to manage VPS limits;
• 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
Read more about VPS tools and scripts configuration
in the H-Sphere VPS Installation guide:
To build latest hsphere-vps scripts, please read building hsphere-vps scripts binaries.
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