Welcome
Administering
A default HCL™ Accelerate administrator ID is included as part of HCL Accelerate. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
Security
The HCL™ Accelerate security model is organization- and team-based. The organization is the base element; teams belong to organizations. Team members manage releases, events, and deployments. Administrators manage teams and assign users to them.
Managing users and authentications
Use Authorization and Authentication to manage users and authentication.

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL™ Accelerate version 4.0.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 frequently-used tasks such as creating value streams.
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.
- Configuring an email server
  Configuring an email server
- Calendar settings
  Use the Calendar Settings page to manage the appearance of calendar events.
- Security
  The HCL™ Accelerate security model is organization- and team-based. The organization is the base element; teams belong to organizations. Team members manage releases, events, and deployments. Administrators manage teams and assign users to them.
  - Roles and permissions
    A number of roles are defined in the product that can be assigned to a user or group. Roles set boundaries on activities that a user or group member can perform.
  - Managing users and authentications
    Use Authorization and Authentication to manage users and authentication.
    - Managing users
      Use the Users page to create, edit, or remove users.
    - Creating a header-based SSO authentication integration
      A header-based single sign-on (SSO) authentication realm uses an external server for authentication.
  - Managing user groups
    You can combine users into groups. When you grant permissions to the group, you simultaneously grant them to the group members. When you assign a group to a team, all group members are simultaneously assigned to the team.
  - Managing teams
    To prepare a team, you create the team and then add users or user groups to it. After you add users, you assign permissions to them.
  - Managing passwords
    Password management details how you can change the administrator password and retrieve the RabbitMQ password from Kubernetes and OpenShift.
  - Managing user access keys
    Create a key that you can use to authenticate API calls.
- Managing licenses
  Configure your license or apply a trial key.
- Managing logs
  Control the amount of detail sent to log files.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL™ Accelerate. After you install HCL Accelerate, you can perform administrative tasks such as license configuration, upgrading, migrating, managing access permissions and security. This guide is intended for system administrators.
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
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

Managing users and authentications

Use Authorization and Authentication to manage users and authentication.

Users can be created, modified, or removed in HCL™ Accelerate.

Users can be authenticated from the systems detailed in the following table:

Table 1. User authentication methods
Authentication method	UI	API
Local	Supported	Not supported
LDAP	Supported	Not supported
OpenID Connect (OIDC)	Supported	Not supported
SSO	Supported	Not supported
User access key (UAK)	Not supported	Supported

API authentication

UAK is the recommended method through the API. An example for UAK is:

curl -X POST -k -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Authorization: UserAccessKey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'.

Details for configuring UAKs are found here.