ARTIFACTORY: How to add listener (custom) configuration to the Artifactory’s bundled Tomcat Configurations in the 7.x versions

ARTIFACTORY: How to add listener (custom) configuration to the Artifactory’s bundled Tomcat Configurations in the 7.x versions
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Suhas CS
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000005993
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Salesforce
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2024-01-22T07:16:47Z
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2024-01-21
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In general, the listeners are nothing but parameters that allow the users to configure custom code/actions. To better understand the context/usage of the listeners, please refer to the external article here. 

When a requirement to update/add a listener configuration to the underlying Tomcat in Artifactory comes into the picture, you may follow the below steps to get it done easily. 

Step 1- Consider taking a backup of the system.yaml file present in the $JFROG_HOME/artifactory/var/etc/ directory.

Step 2 - Use the sample snippet added below for reference to update the custom listener configuration per the requirement. (YAML elements highlighted in the below example should be intended properly)

For example: (We are adding the following listeners to the configuration.
“Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />” and “<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener" checkedOsUsers="suhas" minimumUmask="0007"” 

shared:
    tomcat:
        connector:
            extra: <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" /> <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener" checkedOsUsers="suhas" minimumUmask="0007" />

Step 3- Perform the Artifactory service restart.

Upon a successful restart, we will be able to confirm the addition of listeners by parsing the Apache tomcat server.xml file present under $CATALINA_HOME/conf/ directory.