Summary
This Knowledgebase article provides information about this specific release of the Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in v201.5.1
More Information
Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in provides protection and proactively monitors the Atlassian Confluence environment’s configuration data, services, and application data files.
Release Notes for:
- Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in V201.5.1
Supported Versions and Platforms
- Atlassian Confluence Server supported versions: all 6.x released versions starting with v6.0 up to and including v6.11
- deployed on any of the following operating systems (where compatible):
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2016
- using one of the following Databases either local or remote (where compatible)
- PostgreSQL 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6 – with Neverfail for PostgreSQL Plugin if the database is local
- MySQL 5.6, 5.7 – with Neverfail for MySQL Plugin if the database is local
- Oracle 12c – with Neverfail for OracleDatabase Plugin if the database is local
- SQL Server 2012, 2014 – with Neverfail for SQLServer Plugin if the database is local
- H2 (embedded - evaluation only)
Note: The Atlassian Confluence Plug-in supports more instances of Atlassian Confluence of any supported version, using any supported database, installed on the same server.
Install/Uninstall the Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in Via the Neverfail Advanced Management Client
The Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in can be installed either via the Neverfail CE deployment process or by using Application -> Plugins in the Neverfail Advanced Management Client using the procedure below. Neverfail recommends that for initial deployments of Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in, installation should be performed using Engine Management Service.
To manually install the Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in, follow the steps below:
- Unzip the Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in to the desired location.
- Launch the Neverfail Advanced Management Client.
- Navigate to Application -> Plugins .
- Click on the Install
- Click the Browse button and navigate to the location of the <plug-in name>.dll
- Click OK to complete the installation.
- Repeat this process for each individual plug-in.
To remove/uninstall the Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in, follow the steps below:
- Launch the Neverfail Advanced Management Client.
- Navigate to Application -> Plugins .
- Select the desired plug-in to be removed/uninstalled.
- Click on the Uninstall button in the 'Plugins' pane.
- When the plug-in is uninstalled, the files are not removed. This is by design for future functionality and therefore the following workaround is provided:
- Copy the contents of the r2\plugins\<sponsor>\<version> folder to a different location (e.g. C:\temp).
- Delete the contents of the r2\plugins\<sponsor>\<version>
- To reinstall the plug-in, when prompted for the location of the plug-in files, navigate to the new folder location (e.g. C:\temp).
Note: As an alternative, reinstallation can be accomplished by using the downloaded files from the original download location after removing the plug-in.
Important: After installation of the Atlassian Confluence Plug-in, you can configure Confluence instances exclusions via the Edit Plug-ins dialog, enumerating Confluence’s services names. Their configuration data, services, and application data files will be excluded from protection.
Monitoring
For Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in, monitoring consists of the following:
- Service Availability Monitoring
- Application Monitoring
- Application Health Monitoring
Service Availability Monitoring
Neverfail Engine monitors services specified by the plug-ins to ensure application availability. In the event that a specified service stops or fails, Neverfail Engine can take up to three pre-configured actions to remedy the issue.
Application Monitoring
Tasks - The following 'Tasks' are installed by Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in:
- Periodic
- Protected Services Discovery
- File Filter Discovery
- Registry Filter Discovery
To configure/modify Periodic 'Tasks', follow the steps below:
- Using the Neverfail Advanced Management Client, click on Application -> Tasks .
- Select the desired 'Task'.
- Click on the Edit button at the top of the 'Tasks' pane.
- Configure/modify the 'Interval' field.
Note: 'Interval' is the only field available for configuration/modification and is measured in seconds.
- Click OK to save the changes.
Note: This dialog is also used to Enable/Disable the selected 'Task'.
Application and Performance Monitoring
Rules – The following 'Rules' are installed by Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in:
- Application availability
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Atlassian Confluence Health check: verifies website availability for every protected Confluence instance. The rule is triggered when one of the websites cannot be reached.
- Login check
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Confluence Login: checks the Confluence login for the configured URL, username and password. The rule is triggered when the login fails.
- This rule is disabled by default and needs user’s configuration.
- There are as many Confluence Login rules as the Confluence instances detected on the server*.
- If two or more instances of Confluence have the same login credentials, the same rule can be used for those instances, enumerating the URLs of the instances separated by semicolon.
Note: * the number of Confluence Login rules is limited to 10.
Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in
When the plug-in is installed, all protected services will be set to manual unless otherwise stated.
This is the list of all services protected by this plug-in for each confluence instance:
Note : The following databases are protected by their own plugin:
- SQL Server 2012, 2014 – Neverfail for SQLServer Plugin
- MySQL 5.6, 5.7 – Neverfail for MySQL Plugin
- Oracle 12c – Neverfail for OracleDatabase Plugin
- PostgreSQL 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6 – Neverfail for PostgreSQL Plugin
Applies To
Neverfail for Atlassian Confluence Plug-in