Access Felix Gogo Shell in Liferay 7.2/DXP Portal Environment

Apache Felix Gogo shell is command line interface (CLI) to interact with Liferay Module Framework or OSGi container.

It will provide set of predefined commands to access bundle or modules information like list bundles installed in OSGi container, Services Registry Information and Dependency Management related details.

We have many ways to access the Apache Felix Gogo shell

• Command Prompt in Windows
• Putty Terminal
• Liferay Blade CLI
• From Liferay Portal Control Panel

Command Prompt in Windows

Make sure portal server should be started before start using Apache Gogo shell.

Open command prompt in windows and use following telenet command.

telnet localhost 11311

Use simple command lb it will list the bundles installed in the OSGi container.

Gogo shell using 11311 is default port number configured by Liferay Portal and we can change the port number as well.

Use disconnect to end the session.

Note:

Should not use shutdown, close, and exit commands in the Gogo shell and it will lead to showdown OSGi framework.

If you see “Telnet is not recognized as an internal or external command” enable Telenet in windows. Follow below link

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/telnet-not-recognized-internal-or-external-command

Putty Terminal

We can also use putty terminal to connect to Gogo shell. If you don’t have putty, download portable putty from following link for windows and extract in local machine.

https://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/w64/putty.zip

Click on putty executable and it will launch putty new session window.

Provide following details and open session and it will launch Gogo shell terminal.

Host Name: localhost Port: 11311 Connection Type: telenet

Use help command to know about available commands.

Note:

We can also connect to remote host and need to provide valid remote host name or ip address.

Liferay Blade CLI

If Liferay Blade CLI already install simple use following command.

blade sh <gogo-shell-command>

Example

blade sh lb blade sh help

If BLADE not installed follow below link.

https://portal.liferay.dev/docs/7-0/tutorials/-/knowledge_base/t/installing-blade-cli

From Liferay Control Panel

We can use Liferay Portal Control Panel to access Gogo shell. Login as Portal Admin and portal configuration, we can find Gogo shell app

Login As Portal Admin à Control Panel à Configuration à Click on Gogo Shell

Enter valid Gogo shell command as input and click on execute.

Author

Meera Prince

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2016
Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2015

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2014

Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2013

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Access Felix Gogo Shell in Liferay 7 from PuTTY Terminal

Felix Gogo shell is command line interface to manage bundles in the OSGi container. We have defined commands are available for Felix Gogo shell, form these we can interact with OSGi container and manage the bundles which are deployed in the OSGi container.

We can manage bundles lifecycle like install, start, stop and uninstall bundles from OSGi container.

Apache Felix Gogo Shell Introduction

Liferay 7 also have used Apache Felix Gogo shell to interact with Liferay Portal Module framework. We can deploy Liferay Application bundles and activate and deactivate bundles.

We have following ways to access Felix Gogo Shell

Access from Telnet client

Access from PuTTY Terminal

Access from Telnet client

The following is Article which describe Access Felix Gogo shell from Telnet client

AccessFelix Gogo Shell in Liferay 7

Access from PuTTY Terminal

PuTTY:

PuTTY is open source terminal which support different protocols like SSH and Telnet.

The following are the steps to Access Felix Gogo shell from PuTTY in Liferay 7.

Download PuTTY

Start Liferay Portal

Access Felix Gogo Shell using PuTTY Terminal

Download PuTTY Software

The following is the place where you can download PuTTY software.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

For windows download putty.exe file and place it in your desired location in the system.

Start Liferay 7 Portal

Go to Liferay 7 Portal Tomcat bin directory and start the server and it will take several minutes to start the portal.

The following is the article which describe the Install and Starting the Liferay 7 Portal

Liferay7 Portal Installation

Access Felix Gogo Shell using PuTTY Terminal

Now go to the location where you place the putty.exe

Double click on the putty file then it will open run alert then click on run.

Once click on Run the it will open Window there we need to provide the following information of Felix Gogo shell

Host Name : 127.0.0.1 Port : 11311 Connection Type: Telnet

Note:

As we know that Felix Gogo shell running on the port 11311 and localhost that is 127.0.0.1.

Once click on open button then it will open Felix Gogo shell session

Now we can use all Gogo Shell commands to communicate with OSGi container and manage bundles.

List the bundles using lb command

Use help command to see all available Gogo Shell commands

Author

Meera Prince

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2016
Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2015

Liferay Contributor of the Year 2014

Liferay Top Contributor Award Winner 2013

http://www.liferaysavvy.com 

Read More