[BlueOnyx:14936] Re: No ADD button on virtualserver for server administrator \ reseller

[Stefano Cecconello]

Hi michael,


Thanks for the explanation.
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***Stefano Cecconello
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Il 14/03/2014 03:34, Michael Stauber ha scritto:
> Hi Stefano,
>
>> I've tried creating a brand new server administrator, and the ADD
>> button is  present and working.
>>
>> So now i have two server administrators ( server_admin1 & server_admin2), if i
>> change the owner of all the virtualsites ( 91 vsites ) from server_admin1 to
>> server_admin2, i have the same exact issue as the previous admin, server_admin2
>> has no ADD button while server_admin1 has it back .
> Ok, then I know what it is.
>
> Go to "Server Administrators" and edit the admin in question.
>
> Check the settings for ...
>
> Maximum Disk Quota
> Number of Sites
> Maximum Users
>
> ... and set them to *much* higher values. Because it is most likely that
> the sites associated with that administrator exceed whatever you have
> allowed him to use.
>
> When you give an administrator 20GB of space and his two sites are
> allowed to use up to 10GB each, then the "Add Vsite" button goes away.
>
> It's not important how much space the sites use *at the moment*. The
> part that counts is how much space they *are* allowed to use in total.
>
> This is done to prevent over-allocation. Like having 100GB, creating 10
> Vsites and allowing each to use 20GB in the hope that not all of them
> make use of the full amount of available space.
>
> Same goes for the "Add User" button in the Vsites. When a "server admin"
> has been assigned a "Maximum Users" of 100 and gives two sites the
> ability to have 50 accounts each, then you can't have more users on
> other sites of that server administrator.
>
> The "server administrator" may have rights to create another Vsite. But
> he can't create users on it, because he spread his available 100
> accounts between the first two sites.
>
> For this whole mechanism I outright borrowed Hisao Shibuya's code from
> the somewhat experimental BlueQuartz 5200R code tree.
>
> The last 2-3 days I have been working on the Vsite management of
> BlueOnxy 5207R/5208R (the new GUI) and was porting the existing Vsite
> management pages with the "reseller" management features. While doing so
> I noticed a couple of glitches, inconsistencies and logic problems.
>
> For example: You have Vsites owned by "admin". You then create a "server
> administrator", give him the rights and assign several sites to him. By
> doing so you might exceed the number of Vsites, Users and/or disk quota
> that the server admin might have. If that happens, you start to get
> inconsistent problems. Like user "admin" and siteAdmins being able to
> create yet more user accounts up to the total allowed for the Vsite,
> which contributes to yet more over-allocation.
>
> I'm now in the middle of the process of solving these issues and to roll
> up a more solid logic that takes all the eventualities into account.
>
> When I'm done with that, not even "admin" will be able to add accounts
> to a "server admin" owned Vsite if the "server admin" has run out of
> users. In that case you'll really need to go back and increase the
> "Maximum Users" setting of that "server administrator" first. Or you
> need to go to another site that has way more "allowed users" than it has
> active users and need to reduce that number a little first.
>
> I'll backport these changes to 5106R/5107R/5108R once I'm done. It'll
> probably happen over the weekend.
>

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