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• Go to the Geronimo bin directory
• Execute: java -jar deployer.jar search-plugins
• At the prompt, enter the appropriate number(s) for the desired plugins

Customization

One of the primary goals in developing the monitoring and management plugin was to allow an administrator to monitor any Geronimo server. This meant that the customization must be easy.

DataSources

The datasources used to communicate to the DB on the server and client side are all packaged into separate plugins. By default, the provided datasources are used to connect an Apache Derby database (the reason for this is because the default DB that Geronimo uses is also Derby). However, since these datasources are packaged as plugins, anyone is able to write their own datasource deployment descriptor, package it into a plugin, and use it instead of the one provided by default.

Graphs

Administrators using the console are able to create customized graphs. They are able to specify which statistic to be on which axis, in addition to the ability to perform a mathematical operation on two statistics.

Views

Since there may be many different graphs, the concept of a "view" is used to bundle related graphs together for more manageable use. For example, all graphs related to a specific server can be bundled together, or all graphs graphing the throughput of servers.