How do I customize VZPP screens?

[Ross Annetts]

I want to remove the backups tab and also remove/modify the install Plesk function (since it installs Plesk 8) in the power panel. There is a knowledge base for PIM based service containers at:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/732How do I customize VZCC/VZPP screens

Is there any documentation or can you tell me where the equivalent files are in PVA.

[MakcyD]

I want to remove the backups tab and also remove/modify the install Plesk function (since it installs Plesk 8) in the power panel. There is a knowledge base for PIM based service containers at:

http://kb.parallels.com/en/732 How do I customize VZCC/VZPP screens

Is there any documentation or can you tell me where the equivalent files are in PVA.

I believe, the answer to this question might be helpful, even though it has been posted almost 2 years ago

First of all, the mechanism of screen generation has not changed and Power Panel (provided by pva-pp* packages) still uses XSL processor to generate screens.

The major difference, however, is that now configuration files are located on a hardware node itself and not in Service Container.

General methodology for editing XSL files is the following:

1. Find the screen ID


2. Locate corresponding sections in menu.xml and remember its item id:

[root@pvclin47 ~]# grep -A 1 -B 10 "03.02.01.03.03" /etc/opt/pva/pp/pp/menu.xml
                <item id="management.apps"
                        href="$baseurl/vzdir/infrman/envs/apps?branch=env-home,vzpp"
                        icon="app_management"
                        tip="env_app_setup"
                        cred="vzcp.env.manage.properties.application"
                        security-obj-type="ve.vz.vt"
                        policies="vzpp.deny_manage_templates"
                        ve-vt="vz.vt"
                >
                        <title>Applications</title>
                        <screen id="03.02.01.03.03"/>
                </item>
[root@pvclin47 ~]#

3. Do the search in dashboard.xml for the item id from previous point:

[root@pvclin47 ~]# grep -A 4  "management.apps" /etc/opt/pva/pp/pp/dashboard.xml
                <item id="management.apps" href="$baseurl/vzdir/infrman/envs/apps" title="Applications"
                        icon="app_management" tip="env_app_setup" cred="vzcp.env.manage.properties.application"
                        security-obj-type="ve.vz.vt" policies="vzpp.deny_manage_templates" ve-vt="vz.vt">
                        <text>On this screen you can install, uninstall, or upgrade the Container applications.</text>
                </item>
[root@pvclin47 ~]#

4. Edit or comment out these sections and do the restart of Power Panel service:

[root@pvclin47 ~]# pvapp restart
Stopping pvappd:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting pvappd:
Starting httpd:

[root@pvclin47 ~]#

Of course, points 2 and 3 can be swapped - first find the item id by its title\description and then find corresponging item in menu.xml.

As for this particular operation - removing templates management section - there is KB article on this:
http://kb.parallels.com/en/111304

Hope this helps.