Capabilities
Many of Sonatype Nexus Repository's features that can be enabled or disabled are configured as capabilities under Administration → System → Capabilities.
You must have the nx-capabilities privilege to manage capabilities.
Available Capabilities
Sonatype Nexus Repository includes the following capabilities:
Capability Type | Description | Notes |
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Audit | Enable audit of system changes. | Created automatically on initial startup. |
Base URL | Specify the reverse proxy base URL for your instance to be used in email notifications. | |
Crowd | Enables use of Atlassian Crowd for user authentication. | |
Custom S3 Region | Enable to enter a comma-delimited list of custom S3 regions that should be made available when configuring a blob store. If not added or enabled, only the standard AWS regions will be listed as options when creating an S3 blob store. | |
Default Role | When enabling this capability, you will select one role from all of the available roles in your instance that will be granted to all authenticated users. This means all authenticated users will have all of the privileges assigned to that role. | See Default Role |
Firewall Audit and Quarantine | When enabled, the repository will be audited and components will be evaluated against associated policy. | |
Health Check: Configuration | Enables Repository Health Check for your proxy repositories. | Those using Sonatype Repository Firewall will not see Repository Health Check in their Sonatype Nexus Repository instance. Firewall is a much more fully featured tool for identifying security risks in your repositories. Learn more about Sonatype Repository Firewall on sonatype.com. |
In-Product Analytics | Provide anonymous, non-sensitive information to help us improve Sonatype Nexus Repository. |
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Log4J Visualizer | Identify log4j component downloads impacted by CVE-2021-44228. | See Log4j Visualizer |
Node: Identity | Provides the unique identity for a Sonatype Nexus Repository server. | Created automatically on initial startup. |
NXRM2 style URLs | Provides support for Sonatype Nexus Repository 2-style URLs. | |
Outreach: Management | Manages outreach (front page & update notifications) settings. | Created automatically on initial startup. |
Rut Auth | Configure the HTTP header used for remote user token authentication. | |
Scheduler | Configures scheduler details. |
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Search Configuration | Allows configuring a limit to the number of database queries that Nexus Repository may use to produce a page of search results. |
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Storage Settings | Configures storage settings. | |
UI: Branding PRO | Insert customized messaging into the header and/or footer of your user interface. |
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UI: Settings | Customize some user interface settings. |
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Upgrade | Used to configure upgrades from Sonatype Nexus Repository 2 to Sonatype Nexus Repository 3. | |
Webhook: Global | Send HTTP POST requests for global events. | |
Webhook: Repository | Send HTTP POST requests for repository events. |
Note that as of 3.73.0, you can no longer manage the user tokens feature via capability or capabilities API; you must use the user token user interface or API endpoint. See the user tokens documentation.
The list of existing capabilities can be filtered with the search input box in the header of the list and sorted by the different columns by pressing a column header. The list uses the following columns:
State
The State column does not have a title. Enabled capabilities have a green checkmark added on top of a blue icon. Disabled capabilities use a greyed out icon.
Type
The Type column provides the specific type of a capability in the list.
Category
The Category is optional and details the wider context the capability belongs to.
Description
The Description column contains further descriptive information about the capability.
Notes
The Notes column can contain user created text about the capability.
Creating a Capability
To create a capability, navigate to Administration → System → Capabilities.
Select the Create capability button.
Select the type of capability you wish to create.
Enter the required configuration information; then, select Create capability.
Disabling a Capability
To disable a capability, navigate to Administration → System → Capabilities.
Select the capability you wish to disable.
Select the Disable button.
The capability is disabled and a success message appears.
You can re-enable a capability at any time by selecting the Enable button on this same screen.