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• Open your Freestyle Project job
• In the Build section, click Add build step, and select In the Pre Steps section, click Add pre-build step and select SeaLights CLISeaLights CLI
  

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Configuring SeaLights CLI to generate the session ID

• In the Action select Config - Create build session data
• Press the If you are building a Java project, then open the Add drop down and select Java Options...

  • In the Monitored Application Packages enter the list of packages that you want SeaLights to analyze. It should be a comma separated list with asterisks before and after each entry

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  This is only needed if building a Java project. If the session ID is being created for other languages the you can just put any random package like edu.lmu.*

  Press the SeaLights CLI Advanced... button to expose the SeaLights parameters

• Enter the App Name as you want it to be displayed in the SeaLights dashboard

  InfoPut $

  . The default is ${JOB_NAME} for the Jenkins job name

• Enter the Branch Name you are working on and want to display in the SeaLights dashboard

  InfoPut $

  . The default is ${GIT_BRANCH}

  if using git

  for the branch used with a git SCM

• Select the Build Name that you want  to have for each build and which will be displayed on the SeaLights dashboard

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Using the session ID

The SeaLights CLI config step generates the session ID and places it a buildSessionId.txt  in the jobs workspace.

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• SL_BUILD_SESSION_ID - contains the session ID itself
• SL_BUILD_SESSION_ID_FILE - contains the full path to the buildSessionId.txt in the jobs workspace

Using tokens

This step will also expose a new parameter called SL_TOKEN . It will contain  containing the token entered in the global configuration of the plugin in Manage Jenkins > Configure System section.

This is to allow you have the token when running our agents using the default command line steps.