Installing the Plugin Manager
As a system administrator, you install and configure the Plugin Manager to install, upgrade and remove Packs in order to extend the functionality of the AE
This page includes the following:
Prerequisites
You need to have the Automic Web Interface installed to install the Plugin Manager. For more information, see Installing the Automic Web Interface.
Notes:
- You can download the latest version of the AWI from https://downloads.automic.com/.
- The version of the Plugin can be retrieved from the log file or the About dialog of the AWI.
- The AWI log and messages can also provide useful information to identify the problem(s) preventing the Plugin from being installed.
Installing, Updating and Uninstalling the Plugin Manager
The Plugin Manager is delivered as a .zip
file and contains a .jar file that has to be either copied, replaced or removed to install, update or uninstall the Plugin.
Note: You need to restart your session after copying the .jar file to be able to use the Plugin Manager.
To Install the Plugin Manager
Unzip the .zip file and copy the .jar
file to the autoinstall
folder in the webapps/
directory of the Tomcat server running the Automic Web Interface.
If your system was set up by the ONE Installer, this should be: <installer-root>/External.Resources/apache-tomcat-x.x.xx/webapps/<
awi-webapp-folder>/WEB-INF/autoinstall
.
The Plugin Manager is available in the Packs tab of the Administration perspective.
Optionally, you can enable logging by adding the following parameters to the logback.xml
file in the config
folder of the webapps/<
awi-webapp-folder>
directory on your Tomcat server:
<logger name="com.automic.apm"level="WARN"additivity="false">
<appender-ref ref="LOGGER"/>
</logger>
To Update the Plugin Manager
Replace the existing .jar
file in the autoinstall
folder in the webapps/
directory of the Tomcat server running AWI with the new version. The configuration file will not be overwritten.
Example
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 7.0\webapps\AWI\WEB-INF\autoinstall
To Uninstall the Plugin Manager
Remove the corresponding .jar
file from the autoinstall
folder of your Tomcat installation.