Plugins

Warning

This documentation is not finished! Part or all of it’s content may be missing or inaccurate. As Umit Network Scanner is under constant development and improvement, expect changes in this documentation at upcoming releases.

Introduction

Plugins are useful to implement indipendent features that could help the user to customize the Umit Network Scanner experience.

From the Plugin Window you could manage Umit Network Scanner plugins. The window is divided in two sections the Extensions and Path view.

Extensions View

In the Extensions view you could see a list of available plugins.

Supported actions are:

Action	Requirement
Uninstall	This action requires write access to the plugin file and respective directory.
Update	This action requires write access to the plugin file and respective directory.
Enable	None
Disable	None

Additional actions:

Action
Preferences	If a plugin provides a sort of configuration this action will launch a preference window where you could change the plugin behaviour.
Visit Homepage	Open a page in the default browser pointing to plugin homepage.
About	Shows an about dialog showing informations related to the selected plugin.

Uninstall a plugin

If you want to fully remove the plugin file from your hard disk than you could choose the Uninstall action accessible from the context menu by right clicking on the target plugin and by choosing Uninstall menu item.

In this case the ump file you have downloaded and placed in one of the Paths enabled in the Path View will be deleted from your hard disk. Obviously you need to have write access to that directory where the ump file is located.

Update a plugin

If a plugin provides an update field then UMIT plugin engine could check for the presence of new versions of that plugin, and ask to the user if he wants to update the plugin.

If you want to check for updates than you have to click to on Find updates button on the bottom-right edge of the Plugin Manager window.

Enable a plugin

If you want to use a specific plugin that’s on the list in the Plugin Manager window than you have to click on the Enable button, or right click on it and then choose Enable from the context menu.

Disable a plugin

To disable a plugin like also enabling you have to click on the Disable button or right click on the target plugin and then choose the Disable from the context menu.

Paths View

From Paths View you could add, remove, adjust paths were the UMIT plugins files (!*.ump files) are located, so they will be presented in the Extensions View and could be used.

Find and install new Plugins

You could take a look to the Plugin Index page accessible from http://trac.umitproject.org/wiki/Plugins

After having found your plugin you could download it and place under one of Plugin Path directory, listed in the Paths View.

For example on NIX system you could do:

$ cd ~/.umit/plugins
$ wget http://trac.umitproject.org/attachment/wiki/Plugins/throbberanimation.ump

And then you will see a ThrobberAnimation plugin in the Extensions View list.

Obviously you could simply place the the ump file in a directory and then add that directory in the list of paths in the Paths View.