XWiki Application - Admin Tools

Admin Tools

Description

This XAR contains many administration tools for XWiki Enterprise or XWiki Enterprise Manager. This tool replaces the ImportExport tool, the CheckConfig tool as well as some snippets.

Configuration Checks

The CheckConfig page checks:

• Memory settings
• Database pool settings
• Cache settings
• Encoding settings

The CheckIndexes page checks:

• indexes on the main wiki and on child wikis of an XEM instance
• allows to create the indexes directly from the wiki both on the main wiki and subwikis

The CheckDBEncoding page checks:

• the default encoding and collection settings of the MySQL engine
• the default encoding and collection of the 'xwiki' database 
• the encoding and collection of the xwikidoc table
• the encoding and collection of all the databases and xwikidoc tables of a XEM instance

The CheckRights page checks:

• every space, page that has rights against the standard user and one chosen user

The CheckProgrammingRights checks:

• every page that should have programming rights in the default wiki

The CheckPreferencesPages checks:

• preferences pages that should have been upgraded to Syntax 2.0

TODO:

• add support for xwiki.db.prefix
• add support for xwiki.db

Other Admin Tools

• Requests Status
• Flush Cache
• Activity Report
• Wiki Diff
• Export Tools
• Run Query
• Used Space

Prerequisites & Installation Instructions

1. Log in the wiki with a user having Administration rights
2. Go to the Administration page and select the Import category
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to upload the downloaded XAR
4. Click on the uploaded XAR and follow the instructions

After importing the XAR visit the page Admin.Tools

Release Notes

v2.0.2

• Added a more relaxed verification for windows OS for getting environment variables, which seems to be needed on Windows server 2008

v3.0.1

• Fixed programming rights check page error
• Stop saving known PR pages that does not exist

v3.0.2

• XCONTRIB-169: CheckDBEncoding and CheckIndexes broken with recent version of wikimanager installed as extension