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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 scripts require FreeVPS tools
installed on a VPS host server.
These scripts create and manage virtual server environment, namely:
- install core RPMS packages for basic VPS - base template;
- add, delete, create and install additional
H-Sphere VPS templates.
The 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.
- configure basic and additional services;
- create required system devices;
- create/destroy virtual network interfaces or virtual network interface aliases;
- assign/remove/up/down reconfigure IPs on existing VPS's virtual network interfaces;
- start/stop/suspend/resume VPS;
- manage VPS limits;
- 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.
Also, read about H-Sphere VPS configuration in the H-Sphere VPS Host Installation guide:
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