Deploying the Connector Plugin

Your custom connector must be packaged as a plugin to be deployed in Exalead CloudView. You can deploy your plugins using either the Administration Console or the cvadmin tool (on the command line).

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Packaging the connector as a plugin

Install a plugin in the Administration Console

  1. Go to Deployment > Plugins
  2. Click Upload plugin and browse for your file.

Install a plugin on the command line

Before you begin: You can install plugins regardless of whether the Exalead CloudView product is running or stopped.
  1. Go to <DATADIR>/bin and run: ./cvadmin plugins
  2. Enter: install file=myplugin.zip

    Note:

    For multi-host installs, you must run this command on the master host. The plugin will automatically be distributed to all hosts.

  3. Restart the processes for which you are going to use its components, typically the search­server or analyzer.

You can then use the plugin.

List installed plugins

From the <DATADIR>/bin, get the list of the installed Exalead CloudView plugins: ./cvadmin plugins list

Uninstall a plugin

  1. From the <DATADIR>/bin get the list of the installed Exalead CloudView plugins: ./cvadmin plugins list
  2. Remove the plugin: ./cvadmin plugins remove name=myplugin