If you came so far, it means that your VMware installation is up and running and that you can access the application remotely. From here there are a few things that you need to know and that is for several reasons.
 

1) Basic server level security

Since we at Panther Applications want it to be as easy as possible to download and install this application we have allowed all access to the application. Because of that, it is very important that you, yourself make sure to hide the server behind a firewall and that you change all the passwords to the application.
 

If you don’t have a firewall in front of the server, you might want to use the Linux Ubuntu firewall. Please read the firewall section in the Ubuntu documentation to do that (click here).

As you may already know, there are two default passwords to the standard installation:
 

Terminal, that can be reached through SSH on port 22:
 

User: pantheradmin
Password: panthervm
 

User: root (you can't access directly too root, use sudo)
Password: panthervm

To change these passwords you will need a bit of UNIX knowledge. Find your favorit ssh terminal application, or use putty. Click here for downloading putty (click here)
 

Start up the terminal, type in the IP address, the username (pantheradmin) and password (panthervm) and logon. In the console type:
 

passwd
 

You should now be prompted to type another password. Next you need to change the root password. To be able to change the root password you use the console again to type:
 

sudo passwd root
 

You will now be prompted for the old root password, because you use the sudo command for the first time, after that you should be able to type the password you want. Be sure to type something that you remember.

2) Basic application level security
 

The next very important thing is the application security. The application can be reached on the IP address of the machine on port 80. To be able to change the root user and password you need to have access to the webserver. Simple type in http://xx_ipaddress_xx/. The server should prompt you for a username and password. 
 

User*: root

Password: stop

* The root user is the top administrator of the application. This user can do everything, including adjusting other users rights.
When you login you will see a limited menu. To start restricting the application with your own password, go to Admin -> Users.
 

Press search on the search button. It should then show a list of users that have access to the application. In the list identify the user called root, and press it.
 

You should by now be able to see detailed information about the root user. Just type in a new password to change the password. If you want even more restriction you can type in IP-addresses you will use to login with root.
 

3) Configuring the first few products / subscriptions

Please read how to set up a product using templates (click here)

4) Inserting the customers manually

Please read how to set up customers (click here)

5) Setup the group structure

Please read how to set up the group structure (click here) 

6) Bind customers and products.

Please read how to set up the group structure (click here)

7) Adding custom fields on customers, products etc.

Please read hot to set up the custom attributes (click here)

8) The billing / invoice generation

Please read how to set up basic invoices and do billing (click here)
 

You should by now have:

• Secured the server from the public internet
   
• Restricted the administrator usage if needed. 
   
• Prepared the first products/subscriptions that you can sell or have already sold.
   
• Prepared the first couple of customers 
   
• Assigned products on customers.
   
• Grouped customers and products
   
• Prepared the billing / invoice generation
   
• Adjusted the information on products to meet your needs.
   
• Created additional super users.
   

Continue to other next step in setting up the system. Next part is to begin using modules (click here) to continue setting up using the vmware server platform.