Welcome
Extending product functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL™ Accelerate
Managing native integrations
Native integrations add external functionality to releases, deployment plans, and pipelines.
Managing Jenkins integrations
Manage Jenkins™ jobs with your deployments and pipelines.

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL™ Accelerate version 3.0.x documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Accelerate.
Release information
This document contains information about what's new, bug fixes, known issues, and upgrade notes.
Getting started
This document provides an overview of HCL™ Accelerate.
System requirements
This document contains information about hardware and software requirements for HCL™ Accelerate.
High-level overview
Use HCL™ Accelerate to automate your release lifecycle and manage your DevOps value streams.
Learning
Learn how to complete tasks in HCL™ Accelerate.
Installing and upgrading
Migrating
Administering
A default HCL™ Accelerate administrator ID is included as part of HCL Accelerate. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
Managing value streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
Developing data insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
Releasing software
A release is a repeatable plan that is used to drive deployments.
Extending product functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL™ Accelerate
- Introducing plugins
  Extend HCL™ Accelerate by configuring plugin integrations to external tools.
- Preventing plugins installs in unsupported server versions
  Plugin versions incompatible with HCL™ Accelerate are prevented from installing.
- Creating integrations
  Work with external tools by defining integrations.
- Deleting integrations
  Delete no longer needed integrations.
- Creating plugins
  You can create your own plugins and install them in HCL™ Accelerate. After installing custom plugins, you can integrate them in your releases, reports, and value streams.
- Managing native integrations
  Native integrations add external functionality to releases, deployment plans, and pipelines.
  - Managing UrbanCode Deploy integrations
    Use UrbanCode Deploy applications in your deployments and pipelines.
  - Managing Jenkins integrations
    Manage Jenkins™ jobs with your deployments and pipelines.
  - Integrating with ServiceNow
    Create and manage ServiceNow™ change requests with HCL™ Accelerate. Update change requests with HCL Accelerate tasks and then react to status changes. Control deployment progress with change request updates.
- GraphQL for API endpoints
  Use GraphQL to query API endpoints via HTTP.
- Uploading a build to a pipeline
- Uploading deployment status
How to
The topics in this section describe how to work with HCL™ Accelerate features. Tutorials and workbooks are available for users of all experience levels.
Troubleshooting
Before you contacting support, gather background information and perform tasks that will assist in solving the problem. It helps to be as specific as possible and include all relevant information.
Glossary

Configuring Jenkins integrations

Manage Jenkins™ jobs with your deployments and pipelines.

Before you begin

Obtain the HCL™ Accelerate plugin and install it in your Jenkins instance. On the Jenkins Plugin page search for velocity or UrbanCode. Complete the integration by pasting the HCL™ Accelerate credentials into Jenkins.

Note: Ensure the following requirements are met prior to installation of the plugin.

You must have admin privileges in Jenkins.
Upgrade the Jenkins plugin version to 2.1.0 in order to upgrade the HCL™ Accelerate version to 2.1.0 and later. HCL™ Accelerate version 2.0.6 will be the last version to support the previous Jenkins plugin version of 2.0.6 and earlier.

About this task

This configuration makes Jenkins jobs available to pipelines and deployment plans. You can run Jenkins jobs with HCL™ Accelerate and use the output in later tasks. After you configure an integration, add Jenkins tasks to deployment plans and pipeline stages.

Procedure

Click Settings > Integrations > Plugins.
A list of defined integrations with current information about each integration is displayed in a table.
Click Add Integration for Jenkins.
In the Add Jenkins Integration window, in the Name field, enter a name for the integration and click Create.
In the Integration ID field, click to copy the ID and then paste it into the corresponding field in your Jenkins instance, Manage Jenkins > Configure System > UrbanCode Velocity.
In the Integration token field, click to copy the token and then paste it into the corresponding field in Jenkins.
Click Save.
Depending on the amount of data,the initial integration can take some time.

Synchronization occurs every minute. To prevent synchronization, click the Disable/Enable field on the Integrations page.

What to do next

After the initial integration, you can add Jenkins tasks to deployment plans and select any of the integrated jobs. Similarly, you can add Jenkins jobs to pipeline stages.