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.

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
  Deploying HCL Universal Orchestrator requires the deployment of all its microservices, the UI, the cloud agent, and optionally, the Orchestration CLI.
- 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 the AI agent
- 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
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.
Administering multitenancy for service providers
Configure and administer a HCL Universal Orchestrator multitenant environment.
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

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.

The topics in this section cover the full lifecycle of an on-premises deployment: installation, agent connection, security administration, and observability.

Deploy the server

Install HCL Universal Orchestrator on your Kubernetes cluster, configure Kafka topics, and validate file integrity using SHA checksums.

Connect agents and CLI

Install and configure HCL UnO agent instances and the Orchestration CLI to connect your workload targets to the orchestration engine.

Administer security and users

Manage access control lists, security roles, API Keys, and user registries to control who can view and act on your workload. In multitenant environments, configure tenant lifecycle and access boundaries.

Observe your deployment

Expose Prometheus metrics, monitor system logs, and integrate with observability tools to track the health of your infrastructure.

SaaSHCL Universal Orchestrator as a service

HCL Universal Orchestrator is also available as a hosted SaaS offering. If you use the SaaS version, all deployment, infrastructure management, and platform updates are handled by the service provider.

To start a free trial, visit the Marketplace.