Jenkins Plugin configuration

learn how to configure to collect data acquired by jenkins plugin, extending the single pane of glass devops intelligence affords in your hybrid it estate jenkins is the leading open source automation server, providing hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating any project for to pull data from jenkins, you must configure a jenkins account jenkins plugin the plugin must be downloaded and then installed you may do so by visiting artifactory jenkins plugin or from tenant, follow these next steps to download the plugin from the file server select developer console from the user icon menu at the top right of the screen and from the api documentation tab select devops intelligence from the application drop down menu, and file server from the service drop down menu execute the /files api to get the list of files copy the name of the file to download the file related to the jenkins plugin has the following format kyndryl platform devops x x x snapshot hpi use the latest version of the plugin execute the (/ files /{ filename }) api by clicking the execute button select the download file link in the response body configuration steps jenkins plugin is an example of bringing your own build and bring your own test tools by using this plugin, the jenkins host is able to send build data to the intelligence dashboard the steps to configure the jenkins plugin are as follows login to jenkins server upload plugin go to manage jenkins → manage plugins → advanced tab then, under upload plugin , select the plugin to upload, which is the kyndryl platform devops x x x snapshot hpi (for example jenkins plugin) note the hpi file can be downloaded from file server or artifactory option restart the jenkins server check on the installed tab if the plugin is enlisted (search for ) add the credentials to jenkins to accomplish this, create a token in in the build tool (a service token) please select the following menu selections for this step go to dashboard → settings & utilities → tools configuration → token → select the token type as build or test copy the token value once the token is obtained, perform the following menu selection to add the credentials to jenkins jenkins dashboard → credentials → system → global credentials add credentials for build or test the credentials page will open, select kind as username and password, scope as global and give the build or test token generated in devops intelligence as password note enter the credential username as the token name created in and the password as the actual service token configuring plugin in the existing jobs (for projects) to accomplish this, select any job to configure the installed plugin, and then select configure → post build actions after that, select the publish build information to option from the add post build action drop down then, select apply and save build the project to publish the build data to the selections to be made here are project → build now