The ip_pool.exe utility allows managing IP addresses within resellers’ IP pools. With this utility you can addremove IP addresses tofrom reseller’s IP pool, and set the IP address type.

Note

You cannot add IP addresses to or remove them from a network interface with enabled DHCP. To add or remove an IP address, disable DHCP for a given network interface.

Location

%plesk_cli%

Usage 

ip_pool.exe <command> [<IP address>] [
<option_1> [<param>]
[<option_2> [<param>]]
]

Example

The following command adds the 192.0.2.94 shared IP address to the IP pool of the JDoe reseller account:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --add 192.0.2.94 -type shared -owner JDoe

Commands

Command

Parameter

Description

Example

--add or -a

<IP_address>

Adds an IP address to a reseller’s IP pool.

Requires -owner and -type options.

To add the 192.0.2.34 exclusive IP address to the JDoe IP pool:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --add 192.0.2.34 -type exclusive -owner JDoe

or

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --a 192.0.2.34 -type exclusive -owner JDoe

--add-list

<ip>,<type>[;<ip>,<type>;...]

Adds a number of IP addresses to a reseller’s IP pool.

Requires -owner and -type options.

To add the 192.0.2.34 exclusive IP address and the 192.168.1.2 shared IP address to the JDoe IP pool:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --add-list 192.0.2.34 -type exclusive 192.168.1.2 -type shared -owner JDoe

--update or -u

<IP_address>

Updates IP address info in a reseller’s IP pool.

Requires -owner and -type options.

To change type of the 192.0.2.34 IP address which belongs to the JDoe’s IP pool to shared:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --update 192.0.2.34 -type shared -owner JDoe

or

plesk bin ip_pool.exe -u 192.0.2.34 -type shared -owner JDoe

--remove or -r

<IP_address>

Removes IP address from a reseller’s IP pool.

Requires -owner option.

To remove the 192.0.2.34 IP address from the JDoe’s IP pool:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --remove 192.0.2.34 -owner JDoe

or

plesk bin ip_pool.exe -r 192.0.2.34 -owner JDoe

--help or -h

Displays help on the use of the utility.

To view help on the use of this utility:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --help

or

plesk bin ip_pool.exe -h

Options

Option

Parameter

Description

Example

-type

shared|exclusive

Specifies whether an IP address is allocated to a single reseller, or it is shared among many resellers.

To set type of the 192.0.2.34 IP address which belongs to the JDoe’s IP pool to shared:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --update 192.0.2.34 -type shared -owner JDoe

-owner

<login_name>

Specifies owner of the IP pool.

Is required for all commands except for --help.

To remove the 192.0.2.34 IP address from the JDoe’s IP pool:

plesk bin ip_pool.exe --remove 192.0.2.34 -owner JDoe