About external FTP-storage

An external FTP-storage allows offering your clients additional disk space for backups as an FTP-account. Integration is made with ISPmanager Lite or ISPmanager Business.

This feature is supported from version 5.101.

External FTP-storage

• Id — unique identifier
• FTP-server — IP-address of the FTP-server
• Tariff plan — tariff plan associated with the service
• Client — client who buys the service
• End date — service expiration date
• Status — current status of the service
• Price — full service price including add-ons for a minimum period

Configuring integration and tariff plan

Configuring ISPmanager

• Step 1. Add a new administrator
• Step 2. If you run ISPmanager Lite, enable disk quotas.
• Step 3. Add a user template, and forbid it to create domain, databases, disable shell access and restrict the number of FTP-users that this template can create.

Creating a processing module

Navigate to Processing modules → Add.

• Step 1. Select External FTP-storage
• Step 2. SelectISPmanager 5 as its processing module
• Step 3. Enter ISPmanager URL, Username, and Password of the ISPmanager administrator that you have created above. Attention! You must enter the admin's login/password. You CANNOT set up the integration with reseller permissions.
• Step 4. Provide other parameters: a data center, a name of the processing module that will be displayed in the interface, and select a department that will handle manual tasks.

Creating a tariff plan

• Step 1. Select External FTP-storage
• Step 2. Select your Processing module and User template of the ISPmanager user.