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Managing IP Pool

The IP pool is the location within which the client’s IP addresses are managed. Clients are given IPs and then are able to utilize them within their own domains. IPs are able to be granted as either exclusive, meaning that the target client becomes the user with exclusive rights to this IP, or shared, meaning that this IP is shared among many clients (i.e. one IP can be used for hosting by many clients).

The IP Pool also provides the mechanism by which IP usage can be tracked. The client immediately sees his/her complete list of allocated IPs and can identify the locations on which each IP is currently being used within their environment.

Click the IP Pool icon on the Client Home page to access the Client IP pool. It displays the list of IP addresses that were granted (exclusively or as shared) to this client:

Table 4.2. The IP state/type icons.

IconMeaning
The state icon indicates the system state of the IP address:
[OK]
means that the IP address functions properly
[ ! ]
means that the IP address is malfunctioning. Plesk experiences problems when trying to work with this IP address.
The type icon indicates how the IP address was granted:
means that the IP address was granted exclusively
means that the IP address was granted as shared

The Hosting column displays the number of client's domains that use (have hosting configured) the corresponding IP address.

Adding IP address to the client's IP pool

The admin grants available IP addresses to a particular client so that they can be used for setting up hosting at client’s domains.

  1. At the Client IP pool page, click Add IP Address icon. IP selection dialog will open:

  2. Select an IP address from the List of vacant IP’s.

    NOTE

    You can select several IP addresses at a time.

  3. Click OK to add the selected IP address(-es) to the client’s IP pool.

Viewing the hosting configured for an IP and setting a default domain

You can view the domains that have hosting set up using a particular IP address. Here you can also set a default domain for the exclusive IP address - the domain that will be addressed if a user specifies this IP address in the browser or a domain that cannot be resolved.

  1. At the Client IP pool page, select the IP address you wish to inspect and click on the number of domains displayed in the Hosting column. The page that contains the list of domains using the specified IP address will appear:

  2. To jump to a Domain administration page, simply click on the name of the domain.

  3. To set a domain as default for the exclusive IP address, select the domain using the corresponding radio button and click Set as Default. The default domain name will be displayed in bold.

  4. Click Up Level to return to the Client IP pool page.

Assigning an SSL certificate for an exclusively granted IP address

The administrator can assign SSL certificates to the exclusively granted IP addresses in the client’s IP pool.

IMPORTANT

The admin can only choose the new SSL certificate from those that are available in the certificate repositories of the domains that belong to the corresponding client.

  1. At the Client IP pool page, select the exclusively granted IP address you wish to assign a new SSL certificate to and click on it.

  2. Select the new certificate in the SSL Certificate drop-down box.

  3. Click OK.

Removing an IP address from the client's IP pool

You can remove one or several IPs at the same time.

IMPORTANT

IP addresses that are in use for hosting cannot be removed from the IP pool.

To remove an IP address(-es):

  1. Check the corresponding checkboxes of the IPs list.

  2. Click Remove Selected. Select the checkbox to confirm and click OK.


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