Modifying dbWatch

Adding custom spring beans to the dbWatch server

dbWatch provides some javabased hooks for customizing the behaviour of the dbwatch server. These hooks are injected into the server by the spring
framework.

Follow these steps to install custom classes into dbWatch server.

• place the jar-file containing the desired class into the [install dir]/server/config directory to make the class available in the jvm.
• create a spring xml with a name ending in ServerBeans.xml defining your bean and place it in the [install dir]/server/config directory.
• restart the dbWatch server.

Adding custom spring beans to the dbWatch monitor

dbWatch provides some javabased hooks for customizing the behaviour of the dbwatch monitor. These hooks are injected into the monitor by the spring framework.

Follow these steps to install custom classes into dbWatch monitor.

• place the jar-file containing the desired class into the [install dir]/monitor/config directory to make the class available in the jvm.
• create a spring xml with a name ending in MonitorBeans.xml defining your bean and place it in the [install dir]/monitor/config directory.
• restart the dbWatch monitor.

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