Using Artifactory

Overview

Artifactory provides you with the features you need to manage your binary repositories, both through an intuitive UI and with an extensive set of APIs.

The Artifactory UI is divided into five main modules:

Home

The Home module serves as a dashboard where you can easily access general information and commonly used features. For more details, please refer to General Information.

Artifacts

The Artifacts module is used to browse the repositories in your system and search for artifacts using a number of different methods. While browsing through repositories, Artifactory displays useful information and provides you with tools to perform essential actions to manage your repositories.

Search

The Search module is where you can search for Artifacts by name, package type, properties and a variety of additional methods offered by Artifactory. For more details, please refer to Searching for Artifacts.

Build

The Build module displays the Build Browser where you can view all the CI server projects that output their builds to Artifactory.  Here you can drill down to view detailed build information and compare one build to another.

Admin

The Admin tab is only available to users who are defined as administrators in the system, and is used to perform a variety of administration and maintenance activities such as:

• Configuring different entities such as repositories, software licenses, proxies, mail servers and more
• Managing different aspects of system security such as user definitions, groups,  permissions, LDAP integration and more
• Managing backup and indexing of repositories
• Managing import and export of repositories or of the entire system
• Accessing system information and scheduling different cleanup operations

This functionality is available through the Admin menu which is displayed when a logged-in administrator hovers the mouse over Admin in the navigation bar.

To help locate a specific action, you can enter a search term in the Filter field and have Artifactory emphasize matching menu items.

In addition to the feature set offered  by the UI, Artifactory provides an extensive REST API to facilitate integration with build automation and continuous integration systems.