Welcome
Deploying and Administrating
Deploy, connect, and administer HCL Universal Orchestrator on your own infrastructure, or start immediately with a hosted SaaS environment where the service provider manages all platform operations.
Deploying HCL Universal Orchestrator on premises
The installation package contains scripts, JAR files, and licenses available for download from the MHS portal. When you run the installation scripts, the system automatically validates certificates and verifies all required attributes to ensure a successful setup.
Managing the HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises instance by using scripts
When you install HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises for the first time, the process creates multiple scripts that can be used to manage it afterward. You can run each script to accomplish specific results.

What's new
The What's new section tracks the capabilities delivered across each HCL Universal Orchestrator release, organized by version, so you can navigate directly to the features relevant to your deployment.
Getting started with HCL Universal Orchestrator
HCL Universal Orchestrator is a cloud-native workload orchestration and scheduling platform built on Kubernetes. Its microservices-based architecture enables the centralized orchestration of multi-cloud and hybrid environments from a single point of control.
Deploying and Administrating
Deploy, connect, and administer HCL Universal Orchestrator on your own infrastructure, or start immediately with a hosted SaaS environment where the service provider manages all platform operations.
- Deploying HCL Universal Orchestrator Kubernetes
  Deploying HCL Universal Orchestrator requires the deployment of all its microservices, the UI, the cloud agent, and optionally, the Orchestration CLI.
- Deploying HCL Universal Orchestrator on premises
  The installation package contains scripts, JAR files, and licenses available for download from the MHS portal. When you run the installation scripts, the system automatically validates certificates and verifies all required attributes to ensure a successful setup.
  - Files and folders: HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises installation in Windows operating systems
    When you install HCL Universal Orchestrator for the first time, multiple folders and files are created within the designated directory. By effectively managing these files, you can gain control over the instance to configure, monitor, and optimize its performance as needed for your specific requirements.
  - Files and folders: HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises installation in Unix operating systems
    When you install HCL Universal Orchestrator for the first time, multiple folders and files are created within the designated directory. By effectively managing these files, you can gain control over the instance to configure, monitor, and optimize its performance as needed for your specific requirements.
  - Managing the HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises instance by using scripts
    When you install HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises for the first time, the process creates multiple scripts that can be used to manage it afterward. You can run each script to accomplish specific results.
  - Managing TLS/SSL certificates
    The certificates used to secure and encrypt communication and verify identity over the network can be managed automatically or manually. You can use scripts to manually rotate customer-provided SSL certificates before they expire.
  - Removing an HCL Universal Orchestrator instance using scripts
    You can remove the HCL Universal Orchestrator instance from the host machine by using scripts. By default, the uninstaller automatically stops the service but retains your configuration data for future upgrades, though you can specify a parameter to perform a complete removal.
- Kafka topic reference
  Reference for the HCL Universal Orchestrator Apache Kafka messaging topology that lists the required topics, consumer groups, and producer and consumer microservices for each topic.
- Installing and connecting HCL Workload Automation dynamic agent at version 10.2.3 or later
  You can install agents at HCL Workload Automation to be able to manage all task integrations.
- File integrity and safety with SHA checksum
  Validate the authenticity and integrity of files downloaded from the Download Center ¹ in the UI by verifying their SHA checksums. SHA checksum validation ensures file integrity by comparing the hash value generated for a file, against a unique, pre-generated checksum. Each file in the Download Center is accompanied by its own unique SHA checksum.
- Installing HCL UnO agent
  HCL UnO agent is a versatile on-premises agent that can run all types of tasks with efficiency and reliability. You can configure the properties of the agent to connect it to the agent manager of HCL Universal Orchestrator.
- Installing and authenticating the Orchestration CLI
  Install, authenticate and configure the Orchestration CLI.
- Managing HCL UnO agent in Windows operating systems
  You can manage the agent by using scripts that are generated while configuring the agent or by daemon script. It is recommended to use any method for ideal cohesion and efficient administration.
- Managing HCL UnO agent in Unix operating systems
  You can manage the agent by using scripts that are generated while configuring the agent or by daemon script. It is recommended to use any method for ideal cohesion and efficient administration.
- Inline Scripting task HTTP policy
  Use the agent configuration properties to set the default outbound HTTP policy for all Inline Scripting tasks that run on an agent, controlling which hosts scripts are permitted to reach.
- Managing Workload Security
  You can manage security settings in your environment from the Orchestration CLI and from the UI.
- Configuring a user registry
  In this topic you can find information about how to configure a user registry.
- Keeping track of changes in your environment
  Administrators can request to specify a justification when saving or editing items to keep track of the changes in your environment.
- Managing multitenant security
- Policy-driven plan
  The new HCL Universal Orchestrator policy-driven adaptive plan makes your workload more autonomous, dynamic and scalable.
- Managing time zones
  In this topic you can find information about managing time zones.
- Observability
  Using third-party tools to monitor HCL Universal Orchestrator
Administering multitenancy
Configure and administer a HCL Universal Orchestrator multitenant environment.
Using the UI
The UI is the HCL Universal Orchestrator interface, from which you can design your scheduling environment and monitor every process.
Orchestrating
Orchestrate anything with HCL Universal Orchestrator.
Orchestrating from Mobile
You can use your mobile devices to manage quickly and easily your whole HCL Universal Orchestrator environment.
Monitoring
Take your environment under control.
Using REST API
Use REST APIs to easily integrate workload scheduling capabilities with external products and solutions.
Uno AI Pilot
Welcome to the HCL Universal Orchestrator AI Pilot documentation. This resource is designed to guide you through everything you need to know about using UnO AI Pilot effectively. You will find detailed instructions, feature overviews, and helpful tips to ensure you get the best experience with UnO AI Pilot.
UnO Agentic AI Builder
Troubleshooting
Recover your environment if any issue occurs.
Notices

v2.1.7+Managing the HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises instance by using scripts

When you install HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises for the first time, the process creates multiple scripts that can be used to manage it afterward. You can run each script to accomplish specific results.

Before you begin

You must have installed HCL Universal Orchestrator on-premises to create the scripts. For more information, see Deploying HCL Universal Orchestrator on premises.
Navigate to the bin folder under the .uno data directory, where all the scripts to manage the installed instance are available.

About this task

When you install for the first time, the following scripts are created:

start.ps1 or start.sh: Starts the running instance of the HCL Universal Orchestrator daemon or service.
stop.ps1 or stop.sh: Stops the running instance of the HCL Universal Orchestrator, if any.
upgrade.ps1 or upgrade.sh: Updates the HCL Universal Orchestrator to the specified version.
Note: You must know the path to the new HCL Universal Orchestrator jar file.
data-gather: Gathers all the data associated with the HCL Universal Orchestrator instance in a zip file.
rotateCerts.ps1 or rotateCerts.sh: Rotates the SSL certificates. For more information, see Managing TLS/SSL certificates.
daemon-install.ps1 or daemon-install.sh: Installs the HCL Universal Orchestrator as daemon.

You can run these scripts by using the command line to ensure automation of tasks and consistency in operations.

Procedure

Open the command line.
Type the name of any script, and then press Enter.
Example:
```
start.ps1
```
Important: If you use the upgrade script to update to a new version, you must specify the path to the new HCL Universal Orchestrator .jar file.
For example,
```
upgrade.ps1 path to the new HCL Universal Orchestrator jar file
```