Learn how to administer settings in HCL Launch elements and communication between the elements.
Welcome to the HCL Launch 7.1.1 documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Launch.
This section provides overview and getting started information.
Tutorials are available for every experience level.
An HCL Launch installation consists of the HCL Launch server, a database, and at least one agent.
Learn how to upgrade HCL Launch elements, including the server, agents, and blueprint design server, and how to migrate data.
Learn how to uninstall an HCL Launch server, agent, or blueprint design server.
HCL Launch supports integrations with other IBM® products, products from others, and certain cloud systems.
You can configure clustered HCL Launch servers, blueprint design servers, and agents for high availability. You can also configure agents and agent relays for failover.
To configure a high-availability cluster, you store shared files on network storage. Then, you configure multiple servers, set each server to access the same files and database, and configure a load balancer to distribute the traffic between the servers.
You can back up and recover the contents of your HCL Launch installation.
To configure agents for failover, you specify two or more target servers for the agent to use. If one of the servers fails, the agent switches to another server from the list.
To configure agent relays for failover, you specify two or more target servers for the agent relay to use. If one of the servers fails, the agent relay switches to another server from the list.
After you install HCL Launch, you can modify the server configuration and configure more options.
Each user can specify display options for the server, including the language for the server and how the server shows times and dates.
After you install an agent for HCL Launch, you can modify its configuration or create an agent relay to facilitate communication to remote relays.
HCL Launch provides a 60-day license-free evaluation period. To use all product features after the evaluation period, you must have a license.
HCL Launch includes a wizard to help users become familiar with the procedures and steps in creating a deployment. Some configuration is required before the wizard can be used.
Customize a table view in the HCL Launch application by hiding or showing, and reordering of the table columns.
You can migrate your Codestation artifacts from filesystem to S3 using the S3 migrator tool.
You can move the CodeStation artifacts to a different location on the server.
Agent relays can cache downloaded artifacts. Caching artifacts in this way improves performance because agents retrieve artifacts from agent relays instead of from the server.
After you upgrade to HCL Launch 7.0.5 and later, you can compress the amount of large object (LOB) storage space that HCL Launch uses in the vc_persistent_record database table.
HCL Launch uses a flexible team-based and role-based security model that maps to your organizational structure.
Modeling software deployment in HCL Launch includes configuring components and component processes and adding those components to applications. Then, you use processes to deploy the components to environments.
Learn how to deploy applications in HCL Launch.
provides several different deployment and security reports.
Learn how to extend the function of HCL Launch.
Learn how to troubleshoot some common issues with HCL Launch.
This section gives details about how you can manage your data in
