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Black Duck Polaris Platform

Understand Polaris
Polaris product overview
Subscriptions and Entitlements in Polaris
The data model: applications and projects in Polaris
Out-of-the-box integrations
The Polaris web UI
Polaris UI Overview
The Portfolio page
The Tests page
The Licenses page
The Dashboards page
The Reporting page
The Policies page
The My Organization page
The Black Duck Assist page
Get Started
Get started: Organization Admin
Get started: Organization Application Manager
Get started: Application Admin
Get started: Contributor or Member
Get started: Observer
How-to
Migrate Polaris to the Black Duck domain
Migrate your tenant to Black Duck (with single sign-on)
How-do-I
Set up single sign-on (with SAML 2.0)
Single sign-on with Okta
Single sign-on with Azure and Microsoft Entra ID
Single sign-on tutorials
Manage access with groups
Manage permissions with custom roles
Service accounts for Polaris
Create a Polaris service account
Edit or regenerate a Polaris service account
Delete a Polaris service account
Move projects between applications
Move a project to a different application
Move projects to a different application
Move all projects in an application to a different application
Exclude files and folders from tests
Manage SAST tool versions
Enable SAST tool version customization
Change your organization's default SAST tool version
Change an application's SAST tool version
Change a project's SAST tool version
Change a branch's SAST tool version
Reset an application or project's SAST tool version
Reset a branch's SAST tool version
Audit SAST tool versions
Find the SAST tool version used in a test
How to test from the web UI
Binary Analysis
How to run SCA binary analysis
Container Analysis
Create a Container Analysis project
Add a container to a Container Analysis project
Delete a container from a Container Analysis project
How to run Container Analysis
Download test artifacts
Find a test UID
Generate SAST remediation guidance with Black Duck Assist
Chat with Black Duck Assist (Beta)
Issue Management MCP server
Add the Issue Management MCP server to an AI assistant
Import results from third-party tools (limited availability)
Import issues from Black Duck SCA
Configure a Black Duck SCA connection
Sync data from Black Duck SCA
Manage copyright format
Add or modify components
Add a component (or component origin)
Edit a component
Reset an edited component
Delete a manually added component
Automatic component updates from the Black Duck KnowledgeBase
Find issues captured after a test
Find component upgrade guidance
Find component license information (including terms)
View component history (and activity log)
Fix Pull Requests (Fix PR)
Create and manage automatic Fix PRs
Create a Manual Fix PR
Disable a Fix PR for a Component
Fail Pull Requests (Fail PR)
Create a Fail Pull Request (Fail PR - Warn or Block)
GitLab Settings for Fail PRs
Bitbucket Settings for Fail PRs
Using Reachability Analysis
Enable reachability analysis at the organization level
Enable reachability analysis at the application level
Enable reachability analysis at the project level
Enable reachability analysis at the branch level
Edit and review licenses
Managing deep licenses
Enable deep license data on the org level
Enable deep license data in an application
Enable deep license data in a project
Ways to triage issues in Polaris
Ways to triage components in Polaris
Set up triage approval workflows
Approve or reject issue triage requests
Approve or reject component triage requests
AI-assisted triage (limited availability)
Triaging issue severity
Lock or unlock triaging issue severity settings
Enable or disable triaging issue severity for your organization
Enable or disable triaging issue severity in an application
Enable or disable triaging issue severity in a project
View issue history
How to export issues to CSV or JSON
Create and manage Policies
Issue policies
Pull/merge request policies
Component policies
Test scheduling policies
Manage your default policies
Change your organization's default policies
Control how default policies are applied to branches
Apply your default policies to your portfolio
Change the policies assigned to applications, projects, and branches
Reset policy inheritance for applications, projects, and branches
Monitor policies in Polaris
Add and manage secure tunnels in the Polaris UI
Connect Polaris to Multiple SCM Repositories
Azure Repos
Bitbucket Cloud
GitHub and GitHub Enterprise
GitHub Enterprise Server
Update your self-hosted SCM connections within an application
GitLab SaaS
Synchronizing Polaris with your SCM Provider
Event-Based Test Automation in Polaris for SCM Integrations
Azure Tokens for SCM Bulk Integration and/or Monitoring
Bitbucket Tokens for SCM Bulk Integration and/or Monitoring
GitHub Tokens for SCM Bulk Integration and/or Monitoring
GitLab Tokens for SCM Bulk Integration and/or Monitoring
Connect a Polaris project to a repository in your SCM
Azure Repos
Bitbucket Cloud
Bitbucket Data Center
GitHub and GitHub Enterprise Cloud
GitHub Enterprise Server
GitLab SaaS
GitLab Self-Managed
Enhanced branch support and invalid SCM access tokens
Create and manage branches in a project
Compare default and non-default branches in a project
Create and manage labels
Setting up and resetting two-factor authentication
Issue tracking integrations
Issue tracking integration for Azure DevOps
Issue tracking integration for Jira
Issue tracking integration for ServiceNow
Export an issue to Azure DevOps or Jira
Remove or modify an issue tracking integration
Integrate Secure Code Warrior with Polaris
Make an access token
Work with dashboards
Create a report
Create and manage report configurations
Connect Code Sight to Polaris
Test web applications and APIs with Polaris fAST Dynamic
Create DAST projects for web applications and APIs
Test internal DAST projects with Polaris Secure Tunnel
Use AI-Assisted Authentication
Work with DAST issues
Configure JSON scan settings and authentication profiles
DAST scan settings
fAST Dynamic checkers
fAST Dynamic tutorials
Risk scoring in Polaris
Enable risk scoring
Change an application's risk factors
Create an application risk factor
Modify a risk factor
Delete an application risk factor
View issue risk score calculations
Assign subscriptions to applications
Reference
Polaris release notes
Documentation change log
Polaris Support Information
Polaris IP ranges
Polaris IP ranges for Bridge CLI
Terms and definitions for Polaris
Roles and permissions
Courses, tutorials, and videos
Accessibility statement
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