After you have determined that your plugin works properly when connected to your channel, you can update the channel to start the plugin automatically whenever the channel is started. To do this:

• In the Iguana Dashboard, click the name of your channel.
• Click Edit Channel.
• Click the Destination tab.
• Select the Iguana starts executable check box.
• In the Full executable path field, type the full directory path and file name of your plugin (for example, D:\plugin_test\DestinationPluginExample.exe).
• In the Executable parameters field, type the command line arguments that your plugin is expecting. These are the arguments that you supplied in the Command line arguments field when you were running your plugin from within Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. (The plugin that is generated from Chameleon stubcode expects three arguments: the host name of your Iguana server, the plugin communication port number, and the name of your channel. In Iguana, these can be supplied as $hostname$, $port$, and $channel$. Iguana will replace these with the actual host name, port and channel name.)

• Click Save Changes.
• In the Diagnostic tools section, click Monitor executable output. This enables you to keep track of the output from your plugin.

• In the Control Panel at the right of the screen, click Start Channel. The status square for the channel changes to green, since Iguana starts the plugin when it starts the channel.
• Have your sending application send one or more test messages through the channel. (If the source component for your channel is LLP Listener, you can use the HL7 Simulator to send a test message, as described in Testing the Plugin From Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.) When the test message is sent, the output from the plugin is displayed in the Iguana channel monitoring window:

• As before, the Iguana logs should indicate that the test message was processed properly.

At this point, your plugin has been tested and is ready for use.