Code Insight 2025 R3 Installation & Configuration Guide

Code Insight empowers organizations to take control of and manage their use of open source software (OSS) and third-party components. It helps development, legal, and security teams use automation to create a formal OSS strategy that balances business benefits and risk management.

The Code Insight Installation & Configuration Guide describes how to install and configure Code Insight for use at your site. The guide includes the following sections.

Topic	Content
Installing Code Insight	Instructions for preparing to install, installing, and starting Code Insight. The chapter also includes optional system administration tasks, such as how to run Code Insight as a Windows service, enable HTTPS, or enable a networking proxy server connection.
Configuring Code Insight	Instructions for Code Insight System Administrator tasks, such as scheduling Code Insight Electronic Updates, managing Code Insight users, defining global project defaults and the scan profiles associated with projects, specifying the CVSS version, and configuring an email server for Code Insight notifications. The chapter also provides optional administrative procedures such as configuring Code Insight for LDAP and single sign-on and more.
Integrating with Source Code Management	(Required if you intend to synchronize with a remote source-code management component, or SCM, to obtain data to scan) Steps to ensure that the SCM command-line client is properly installed on the Code Insight Scan Server and that connectivity between the SCM client and the SCM server is properly configured.
Integrating with Application Lifecycle Management	Description of how to create one or more Jira connector instances, enabling Code Insight users to create, manage, and track external Jira work items associated with OSS or third-party inventory directly from Code Insight.
Upgrading Code Insight	Steps on how to upgrade from a previous Code Insight version to the current version.
Code Insight User Roles and Permissions	A reference to the various user roles and permissions that Code Insight offers as a means to control user access to its functionality at your site.