JMeter local plugins manager

Intranet Plugin Manager server for JMeter - Periodically downloads plugins from the internet.

Motive

In situations where specific hosts lack internet access, this tool enables the team to establish a dedicated server for managing plugins within the organization.

Required Components

1. Java 8 or above

Features

1. Downloads plugins and their associated dependent libraries to local storage.
2. Stores all information in an SQLITE DB.
3. Provides a UI to upload custom plugins restricted to sharing within the organization.
4. Creates and exposes a modified API to retrieve plugin info for JMeter Plugin Manager.
5. Easily configurable scheduler to check for newly available plugins/versions in the market.

Available APIs

Service	HTTP Method	URI
App Running Status	GET	http://<hostname/IP>:<port>/v1/status
Get Plugins	GET	http://<hostname/IP>:<port>/v1/plugins
Upload Custom Plugin	GET	http://<hostname/IP>:<port>/v1/upload
View Plugins in table	GET	http://<hostname/IP>:<port>/v1/dashboard
Get Public Plugins	GET	http://<hostname/IP>:<port>/v1/plugins?type=public
Get Custom Plugins	GET	http://<hostname/IP>:<port>/v1/plugins?type=custom

Creating Properties file

create a properties file with the below contents.

server.port=2222
server.uri.path=/v1

# Scheduler interval (in ms)
scheduler.interval=86400000

# DB Connection Pool configuration
db.min.threads=2
db.max.threads=10
db.timeout.secs=300


# External APIs
jmeter.plugins.url=https://jmeter-plugins.org/repo/
mvn.repo.url=mvn.repo.url=https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/jmeter/

# Directory Configs
local.repo.path=/app/plugins-manager/

# Uncomment the below if you are running this on Windows
# local.repo.path=C:\\Temp\\plugins-manager\\

How to Set up

• Download the Latest release from here
• Create configuration.properties file
• Run the JAR (java -jar jmeter-local-plugins-manager-2.0.jar -c configuration.properties)
• Go to the JMeter installed directory and set jpgc.repo.address (this should be the local plugins manager API) in the jmeter.properties

Uploading Custom plugin

How it works ?

• Acts as an independent server that polls the plugins manager for updates (configurable).
• Creates the required directories to store plugins and their dependencies locally.
• Checks permissions on local directories before storing files.
• Exposes 3 APIs in the intranet:
  • Public plugins API
  • Custom Plugins API
  • Merged (Public and Custom) Plugins API

Detailed Instructions

• Detailed instructions is available at Medium

Tools used

• Spark java framework
• Sqlite DB

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