Installing Upgrading Plugins

You can either upload and activate the plugin through UI or just place it in a specific folder on Server. Either option works fine.

Upload and Activate Plugins using UI

The FlexDeploy installation comes with plugins which are automatically loaded on startup. To install additional plugins or plugin versions, select Integrations-> Plugins from the menu.

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To upload a new plugin or new version of an existing plugin, click the Upload button. 

On the upload plugin popup, click on the text field to find the plugin jar file on your local drive or drag and drop the jar file onto the text field in the popup directly. Then click on UPLOAD in the popup to load your plugin.

If the upload of plugin completes successfully, you will see new row in plugins table.

The plugin is now installed in the FlexDeploy server but is not yet ready for use. To make it available for use you must click on the button in the Active column for the plugin version you uploaded. Only one version of a particular plugin can be active at one time. To revert to an older version, simply activate that version. Select the newly uploaded plugin version and make it active through the button in the Active column. See screenshots below for example.

If you are installing a new plugin for the first time you must now associate one or more of its operations to one or more Target Groups. See the Target Groups section of the Topology chapter for details.

Flexagon may from time to time provide new plugins, or provide updates to existing plugins, and make them available independent of a FlexDeploy upgrade. This approach allows faster plugin delivery which is not tied to product release timelines.

Auto Upload Plugins