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Overview

Colocation Manager one of most powerful HostBill modules and an extremely rich-featured tool to help you store and manage Servers, Switches, PDUs, KVMs, Blade Systems, Zero-U devices and more. 

Installation

  • After purchase go to https://hostbillapp.com/clientarea/, log-in and proceed to Services → HostBill Plugins → Colocation Manager v5 and from left-hand menu choose Download This Product
  • After downloading, unzip archive contents in your main HostBill directory
  • Log-in into your HostBill adminarea, proceed to Settings → Modules, locate your newly uploaded module and choose Activate

Initial Configuration

Colocation Manager v5 module for HostBill is easy to configure

Adding PDU control to customer account

  • Under Settings → Modules find and activate PDU_SNMP module
  • Proceed to Settings → Apps and define SNMP connection using PDU_SNMP module
    • From the list of supported device manufacturers select your device
    • Provide SNMP read & write community
    • Use Test Connection to check whether HostBill can connect to your PDU
  • Repeat the steps above for each PDU you wish to control
  • Proceed to Plugins → Dedicated Servers Manager → Inventory templates
    • Select inventory items that will represent your PDUs
    • Ensure those items have PDU App as an additional atribute
  • Proceed to Plugins → Dedicated Servers Manager → [Your Rack]
    • Select/Add PDU item on your rack
    • From Hardware Tab, select App defined in previous steps
    • Use Load ports to load ports from your device
    • Save changes for your item
  • Proceed to Orders & Accounts → Accounts, select customer account of Type: Colocation/Dedicated server
    • Under PDU tab, select PDU & ports that this account/server is attached to
    • You will now have control over customer PDU ports

Adding PDU reboots to client portal

  • Connect PDU ports to customer accounts using steps above
  • Proceed to Settings → Products & Services
    • Select product of Type: Colocation / Dedicated Servers
    • Proceed to Client Functions tab
    • Enable PDU Reboots Client function

Adding Switch control to customer account

  • Under Settings → Modules find and activate Switch_SNMP or Switch_Telnet module
  • Proceed to Settings → Apps and define SNMP connection using Switch_SNMP or Switch_Telnet module
    • From the list of supported device manufacturers select your device
    • Provide SNMP read & write community (for SNMP) or username/password for Telnet
    • Use Test Connection to check whether HostBill can connect to your Switch
  • Repeat the steps above for each Switch you wish to control
  • Proceed to Plugins → Dedicated Servers Manager → Inventory templates
    • Select inventory items that will represent your Switches
    • Ensure those items have Switch App as an additional atribute
  • Proceed to Plugins → Dedicated Servers Manager → [Your Rack]
    • Select/Add Switch item on your rack
    • From Hardware Tab, select App defined in previous steps
    • Use Load ports to load ports from your device
    • Save changes for your item
  • Proceed to Orders & Accounts → Accounts, select customer account of Type: Colocation/Dedicated server
    • Under Switch tab, select Switch & ports that this account/server is attached to
    • You will now have control over customer Switch ports

Connecting to Cacti / Observium for bandwidth billing

  • Under Settings → Modules find and activate Cacti or Observium module
  • Proceed to Settings → Apps, add new Cacti or Observium App connection
    • Make sure to follow oncreen guide to upload API file to your Cacti or Observium server
    • Provide admin username & password
    • Use Test Connection to check whether HostBill can connect to your Cacti or Observium app
  • Proceed to Settings → Products & Services
    • Select product of Type: Colocation / Dedicated Servers
    • Under General tab configure your Bandwidth/Overage billing settings
    • Under Connect with App select Cacti or Observium and connection defined in previous steps
    • Under Client Functions you can enable Bandwidth usage graphs for clients to track graphs in client portal
    • Save changes
  • Proceed to Orders & Accounts → Accounts, select customer account of Type: Colocation/Dedicated server
    • Under Bandwidth Tab click enable, and select Device/Ports to assign graphs to account & (optionally) bill for them

Connecting to Nagios

  • Under Settings → Modules find and activate Nagios module
  • Proceed to Settings → Apps, add new Nagios App connection
    • Provide Nagios username & password
    • Provide URL to your Nagios (URL to cgi-bin directory)
    • Use Test Connection to check whether HostBill can connect to your Nagios
  • Proceed to Plugins → Dedicated Servers Manager → [Your Rack]
    • Using [Refresh] function you can fetch latest monitoring outputs from Nagios
    • HostBill tries to match devices from Nagios using hostname/labels, so make sure those match in Colocation Manager and Nagios
  • If you wish your clients to have access to Nagios output as well:
    • Proceed to Settings → Products & Services, select your colo/dedi product
    • Under Connect with App add new connection, select Nagios module & app
    • Under Client functions enable Monitoring function
    • Proceed to customer account details in Orders & Accounts
    • Under Dedicated Srv Manager assign item related to the customer account

Image uploads for Inventory Templates

If image/item icons uploads in Inventory Templates is not working for you, please ensure that/includes/modules/Other/Dedimgr/admin/images/hardware have chmod 777

Enabling Top Bandwidth usage list plugin

  • Ensure that guides above regarding Cacti/Observium are finished
  • Under Settings → Modules find and activate Top Bandwidth usage list module
  • Module will now be accessibe from Plugins menu


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