Minecraft plugin PlugManX

🔌 About PlugManX

PlugManX is a Minecraft plugin for runtime plugin management on Bukkit/Spigot servers. It provides in-game and console commands to inspect installed plugins, control their lifecycle (enable/disable/load/unload/reload/restart), and produce plugin lists for debugging or auditing.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin is intended for server administrators and developers who need to manage or debug server-side plugins without performing a full server restart. It is primarily a tools-and-utilities plugin for server maintenance and troubleshooting.

⚙️ Features

• Enable, disable, restart (disable+enable), load, reload (unload+load) and unload plugins at runtime.
• List installed plugins alphabetically, optionally showing versions.
• Show detailed plugin information (version, authors, commands, etc.).
• List commands registered by a plugin and look up which plugin owns a command.
• Tab completion for plugin and command names.
• Dump plugin list and versions to a file.
• Check whether a plugin is up-to-date against an online resource (update check behavior documented by the project).
• Permissions support with command nodes; by default commands require operator privileges.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server administrators and operators who need on-the-fly plugin control.
• Development or testing servers where frequent plugin changes occur.
• Small to medium survival/SMP or private servers where restarting is disruptive.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• An admin disables a misbehaving plugin without restarting the server to restore stability.
• A developer loads a newly built plugin jar into a test server while players remain online.
• Produce a dumped file of plugin names and versions to aid troubleshooting or inventorying server components.

⌨️ Commands

🔐 Permissions

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official PlugManX .jar and place it into the server plugins/ directory.
• Restart the server to load the plugin and confirm startup messages in the console.

🧾 Configuration

• The project provides a config.yml file as part of its resources; the plugin writes or uses a configuration file on first run.

🧠 Technical Notes

• The project is distributed under the MIT license.
• Commands and permission nodes are documented by the project; by default the nodes require operator privileges.
• The project repository and configuration files are maintained in the plugin's source repository.
• The plugin performs runtime operations that can affect plugin state; using runtime unload/load operations may cause instability with some plugins and is typically recommended for administration and debugging rather than on high-availability production servers.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need to inspect or control installed plugins without interrupting player sessions, PlugManX provides a concise set of runtime plugin management commands and reporting features that simplify short-term plugin swaps, debugging, and inventorying.