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Client Templates Management

What is client template?

Client template is a predefined set of restrictions and permissions that may be applied to a client account. The purpose of client templates is to simplify creation of client accounts with automatic settings assignment to them. For instance, you can create a client template that will allocate a shared IP address, so that you would not have to manually add the IP address to a client's IP pool each time a new client account is created.

The following parameters can be defined in a client template:

Template name
Ability to create domains
Ability to manage physical hosting
Ability to change domain limits
Ability to manage Domain Name Server zone
Ability to manage log rotation
Ability to manage crontab
Ability to manage anonftp
Ability to manage Tomcat web application
Ability to change shell
Ability to manage mailing lists
Maximum number of domains a client can create
Maximum disk space amount
Maximum amount of traffic allowed
Maximum number of web users
Maximum number of databases
Maximum number of mailboxes
Mailbox quota
Maximum number of mail redirects
Maximum number of mail groups
Maximum number of mail autoresponders
Maximum number of mailing lists
Maximum number of Tomcat web applications
Client account validity period
IP addresses allocation
Number of lines to be displayed in a client's interface

Creating a client template

To add a new client template, follow these steps:

On the web server administration page click the CLIENT TEMPLATES button. The Client templates management page appears.
Click the ADD button, the Template creation and editing page appears.
Enter the name for the client template in the Template name field. In the Permissions section, check the appropriate checkboxes to grant all necessary permissions to the client. In the Limits section specify the limits to be applied: check the appropriate checkboxes and type in the values for the parameters. To limit client account validity period, enable the corresponding checkbox, select the time unit in the drop-down list (it can be Years, Months, Days) and type in the value.
Select shared ip addresses in the list to be used for the client's hosting accounts, add new ip addresses to the list clicking on the ADD button, and remove them by selecting an ip and clicking REMOVE.
Check the Allocate exclusive ip addresses to the client checkbox to ensure that the client is provided with exclusive ip addresses. Specify the maximum number of exclusive ip addresses to be allocated below.
Enter the number of lines to be displayed on a page.
Click UPDATE to submit settings, UP LEVEL to discard unsaved settings and return to the Client templates management page.

The template will be added to the list of client templates and become available as option when creating a new client account.

Client Templates Management page

This page contains a list of all client templates, already created in the system. Once you create a client template you are able to use it while creating a new client account.

The list of client templates can be sorted by name in ascending or descending order. To sort the list, click on the Name header of the list. An arrow will show the order of sorting.

You can search through the list for a certain pattern. It may help you in case you have a great number of templates in the list and you need to work with a particular one. To search through the list, type the pattern string into the text input field and click SEARCH. If there were any items found matching the entered pattern string, they will all be displayed in the form of a reduced list. The button SHOW ALL will revert to displaying the whole list.

To add a new client template, click on the ADD button.

Editing a client template

To edit a client template:

On the Client templates management page, select the template you wish to edit by clicking on its name in the list. The Client Template Editing page will open, allowing you to change the desired options. Settings that can be configured on that page are absolutely the same as on the Client Template Creation page.
Click UPDATE after you are done with configuring the template.

Removing a client template

On the Client templates management page, select the template you wish to remove by putting a checkmark in the checkbox related.
Click REMOVE SELECTED. The confirmation page appears.
On the confirmation page, check the checkbox to confirm, and click SUBMIT.

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