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 system.

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:

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.