Installing the Monitoring Extension

Monitoring is an official extension, as such it can be found alongside any GeoServer release.

  1. Stop Geoserver:

    • In Linux sudo service geoserver stop

    • In Windows, execute tomcat_stop_1.bat

  2. Get the monitoring zip file (already downloaded for you) from the training material data\plugins folder.

  3. Extract the contents of the archive into the /opt/tomcat_geoserver/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib in Linux (%TRAINING_ROOT%/tomcat/instances/instance1/webapps/geoserver/WEB-INF/lib in Windows) directory of the GeoServer installation.

Verifying the Installation

There are two ways to verify that the monitoring extension has been properly installed.

  • Start GeoServer and open the Web Administration interface. Log in using the administration account. If successfully installed, there will be a Monitor section on the left column of the home page.

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    Monitoring section in the web admin interface

  • Start GeoServer and navigate to the current data directory. If successfully installed, a new directory named monitoring will be created in the data directory.