##### Installing OS Templates

To install an OS template:

1. Service Director - Virtuozzo Manager - OS Templates.
2. Click the New OS Template button. The New OS Template form appears on the screen;
3. Select the OS template location:
   - RPM file on the Management Node - indicate the full path to the template RPM. In this case, the Parallels Business Automation - Standard distribution CD 2 should be mounted to your Management Node as described earlier in this Guide. For example, if the CD was mounted to the /cdrom directory on your Management Node, then to install the Red Hat Linux OS template, you should indicate the following path:`/cdrom/templates/redhat/RPMS/RPM_NAME`, where the `RPM_NAME` should be replaced with the full name of the template RPM.
   - URL of the RPM file - indicate URL (in the case if you downloading OS templates);
   - Upload RPM file - The simplest option. Click the Browse button and locate the RPM on your local computer (for example, on CD);

     Important: If you are installing OS templates from distribution CD, please, mount CD with `-o uid=apache` option. OS templates are on distribution CD2.

4. Click the Next button.

   Parallels Business Automation - Standard system examines the OS template, and the OS template properties appear on the screen. The OS template now is in the Uploaded state. Thus, you can decide upon installing this OS template right now or leave it in the Uploaded state and (probably) install later.Please, follow the wizard as this described below. You can install the OS template by clicking the Install button. You will be offered to select Hardware Nodes to install OS template. Select one of the variants:

   - If you want to create Containers on the basis of this template on all registered Hardware Nodes, set the option button to All;
   - If you want to create Containers on the basis of this template on selected Hardware Nodes only, set the option button to Selected nodes only. Click the Add button: the list of all registered Hardware Nodes appears in the separate window. Select Hardware Nodes by clicking on their names. In case of mistake, you can remove the wrong Hardware Node from the list. To this effect, click on the Hardware Node name to select it (the name will be highlighted) and click the Remove button.
5. Click the Install button. If you already have some Hosting Plans, the Parallels Business Automation - Standard will search Hosting Plans that include the previous version of the OS Template being installed. If such Hosting Plans exist, you will be offered to select Hosting Plans for upgrade. After this, you can finalize installation process.

Please, repeat the steps described above to install all OS templates.

Mind that to enable the Container creation you need to synchronize the compatible template with a Hardware Node to store the Containers on.

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