You must manually start the UAF agent for each RAP component for the component to be visible in, and controlled by Operations Console.
When you log in to Operations Console, the RAP components with running agents are now visible.
Plugins at runtime are stored in ua/nodes/<nodename>/plugins. At agent startup, the UAF checks for the ua/nodes folder. If it does not exist, the UAF will create ua/nodes and copy the ua/plugins into ua/nodes/<nodename>/plugins. If ua/nodes exists, the UAF will not copy the ua/plugins into ua/nodes/<nodename>/plugins.