Ensim® Pro 4.0.0 for Windows® 2003 Release Notes

October 11, 2004

Introduction

These release notes provide information about Ensim® Pro 4.0.0 for Windows® 2003. This release supports only a fresh installation of the control panel, and includes new features and enhancements.

Topics include:

About Ensim Pro
What’s new in Ensim Pro
Product compatibility
Known issues
Known limitations
Feedback and support
Legal and copyright notice

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For simplicity, we will refer to Ensim Pro 4.0.0 for Windows 2003 as “Ensim Pro” throughout this document.

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About Ensim Pro

Ensim Pro is a software application designed to automate the deployment and management of Web services and Web sites. Ensim Pro is packaged with core Web hosting server applications and features that allow site owners to manage a range of services on their sites. These services include Web capabilities, FTP capabilities, email capabilities, and Web site security.

Ensim Pro also includes many useful administration tools, such as a file manager to help site owners work with directories and files and a user account manager to allow them to maintain the user accounts on their sites.

What’s new in Ensim Pro

Ensim Pro has been built using an entirely native Windows implementation and contains the following new features.

Server level

Bandwidth monitoring: You can monitor the bandwidth consumed by the Web traffic of a site. You can also monitor the bandwidth used by resellers.
Bandwidth limiting: You can limit the bandwidth consumed by a Web site. Ensim Pro also supports email notifications which are sent when the limits are exceeded.
I18N-ready: Ensim Pro is I18N-ready which ensures that it can be easily localized for a particular region or language.

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The PowerTools service and the Ensim Ignite add-on service do not support I18N, and therefore, will be displayed only in the English language.

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IP address management: You can track IP addresses used for IP-based sites by using scopes. Scopes are logical groupings of IP addresses associated with a specific subnet mask. IP addresses are automatically allocated from scopes when an IP-based site is created using the Automatic option.
Multiple IP addresses for name-based sites: You can use a pool of IP addresses for name-based sites. Ensim Pro will use these IP addresses when it creates name-based sites.

Site level

DNS Manager: Site administrators can manage various DNS options for their domains.
Power Tools: Power Tools are a collection of various Web applications such as Gallery (a tool to create and maintain photo albums), PHPBB (a discussion board), and WordPress (a news and Web log tool), which you can provision for sites to make your hosting plans more attractive. Because Power Tools are automatically installed and configured by Ensim Pro, you do not have to worry about support and integration issues.

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Please ensure that the MySQL service is also selected while provisioning Power Tools to any site.

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Webalizer: Ensim Pro includes Webalizer – a free Web server log analysis program. It produces highly detailed and easily configurable usage reports in HTML format for viewing with a standard Web browser.
Advanced site information dashboard: The site administrator control panel includes a comprehensive statistical dashboard on the status and usage of key site resources.

The dashboard provides a statistical overview of the following site information:

Site usage information
Bandwidth information
General information about the site and its network settings
Status of services enabled for the site

User level

User Web sites: Site users can create and maintain their own Web pages.
FTP: Site users can upload or download content using FTP to a location specified by the site administrator.
Microsoft® FrontPage®: Site users can use Microsoft FrontPage to manage the content of their Web pages.
Multiple content uploading: Site users can modify the Web site content of the site to which they belong. This means that a Web site’s content can be controlled by multiple users.

Ensim Ignite services for enhancing ebusiness

Ensim Ignite is a suite of online services that provide cutting-edge business solutions to extend your business reach and enhance your business efficiencies with minimal investment and turn-around time.

Services include:

Email marketing. Solutions to help your customers market their product and services
Payment processing. Payment systems for your customers’ ecommerce businesses
SSL certificates. Authentication services for your customers’ Web sites
Site engine optimization (SEO). SEO services to help your customers promote their Web sites

To use these services (which are also available to your resellers), you must first register with Ensim Ignite at http://www.ensim.com/products/ignite/register.asp. As an Ensim Ignite member, you will be given an Ensim Account or Ignite Partner ID. You will need to use this ID to configure your Ensim Ignite services through the server administrator control panel.

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You must enter your Ensim Ignite Partner ID in the server administrator control panel to ensure that you get paid. This needs to be done only once for each server.

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Your customers transact directly with the Application Service Provider (ASP) that provides the Ignite services. They can sign up and self-manage the services through the site administrator control panel.

As an Ensim Ignite member, you will also have access to the Ensim Ignite marketing portal (http://www.ensim.com/ignite/index.html), a password-protected site, where you can download ready-to-use marketing materials to help promote the service, as well as find additional training and support information on Ensim Ignite.

Mail

IMail: You can integrate IMail with Ensim Pro by using the add-on provided by Ensim to provision mail services for sites.
Mailing lists and distribution lists: Ensim Pro supports mailing lists and distributions lists (provided they are supported by the mail vendor).

Web Server

Shared SSL: You can use a single SSL certificate for multiple Web sites, thus offering security for a Web site at a much lower cost.
Sub domains: You can create sub domains easily.
Parked domains: You can use domain parking to point a domain name to an existing Web site.
Domain aliasing: You can use domain aliasing to point multiple domain names to the same Web site.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Type Manager: Site administrators can manage MIME types for their sites.
ColdFusion®: ColdFusion MX 6.1 can be integrated with Ensim Pro by using the add-on provided by Ensim.

Scripting

COM+ components: You can register COM+ components with Ensim Pro for use with ASP applications.

Reporting

Log rotation: Site administrators can manage logs through their interface. You can specify the log settings for a site while creating it.

Other

New look and feel: Ensim Pro has a revamped user interface with improved navigation.
Branding: The Ensim Pro interface can be branded at all levels.
Autologin to all levels: Administrators at each level can auto log on to their child levels; for example, a server administrator can auto log on as the reseller administrator.
Uninstall support: Ensim Pro can be uninstalled.
Microsoft DNS: Ensim Pro uses Microsoft DNS as the DNS server.

Product compatibility

Ensim Pro requires the English version of the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard, Enterprise, or Web edition) operating system to be installed on the server. Ensim Pro will not work with servers running on Windows 2000.

Known issues

This section describes the known issues of Ensim Pro. The numbers in parentheses indicate the Ensim problem report (PR) number.

FrontPage widgets do not work on a sub domain’s pages. (35801).
You cannot disable the SSL option from a site that is being used as a shared SSL host by other sites. Currently, there is also no check to disallow deletion of the shared SSL host. (32837, 32321)
Currently there is no check to prevent the deletion of a parked domain host. If a parked domain host is deleted, the domains parked on it are also deleted. (34464)

Known limitations

This section describes the known limitations of Ensim Pro. The numbers in parentheses indicate the Ensim problem report (PR) number.

The Set Default Permission feature in File Manager resets all the customized permissions enabled for the site’s users.
If the Network Properties window is open on the main or terminal session to the Ensim Pro server, you may get errors while adding IP-based sites using the Ensim Pro control panel. If you try to delete an IP-based site, the IP address will not be released from the server’s network adapter. This could lead to inconsistency if you try to provision a new site with the same IP address.
The FTP counters returned by IIS do not always return proper data. As a result, the FTP bandwidth usage displayed in the control panel may be inaccurate. (34137)
You cannot assign SSL certificates to the sub-domains of a secured site. (34939)

Feedback and support

To take advantage of Ensim’s support services or to find additional product documentation, visit the Ensim support site, http://support.ensim.com.

To log in to Ensim online support, go to https://onlinesupport.ensim.com.

To provide feedback about Ensim products or documentation, please use the feedback form at http://www.ensim.com/about/feedback.asp.

Legal and copyright notice

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