Overview

This page describes the parameters used in the Unified Agent's configuration.

Configuration File Parameters

Organization Vitals 

General parameters used for authentication, categorization, and product/project definitions.

NOTE: One of the following is a required field: -project or -projectToken .

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

apiKey 

(Mandatory) A unique identifier of your organization. Used to identify the organization in plugins. 

N/A

N/A

No default

-apiKey

userKey 

Unique identifier of the user that can be generated from the Profile page in your WhiteSource account.

NOTE: Required only if Enforce user level access is selected in the Integrate page.

N/A

N/A

No default

-userKey

requesterEmail 

The provided email will be matched with an existing WhiteSource account. Requests for new libraries will be created with the matched account as the requester email.

user@provider.com

N/A

N/A

No default

No

projectName 

The name of the project to update (mandatory).

NOTE: If not defined, then projectToken must be defined instead.

N/A

N/A

No default

-project

projectVersion 

The project's version.

NOTE: Added to the name if Use version in project names is selected in the Integrate page.

N/A

N/A

No default


-projectVersion

projectToken 

Unique identifier of the project to update; found on the Integrate page.

NOTE: If not defined, then projectName must be defined instead.

N/A

N/A

No default


-projectToken

projectTag 

Enables setting of project tag only for a newly-created project. Project tag should be defined with key:value

For example: projectTag= myTagKey:myTagValue

NOTE: This parameter is not supported when using the Repo Integrations or the Azure DevOps Services Integration.

N/A

N/A

No default

-projectTag

productName 

Name of the product to update

N/A

N/A

MyProduct

-product

productVersion 

Version of the product and project to update. It overrides the project version.

N/A

N/A

No default


-productVersion

productToken 

Unique identifier of the product to update; found on the Integrate page.

N/A

N/A

No default


-productToken

projectPerFolder

Creates one project per subfolder according to your "-d" parameter. Each subfolder is named according to the folder.


A project per folder is created

A project per folder is not created

False

-projectPerFolder

projectPerFolderIncludes 

Comma or space-delimited list of folder names to be included in the scan.

NOTE: Relevant only if projectPerFolder is True.

N/A

N/A

All folders

No

projectPerFolderExcludes 

Comma or space-delimited list of folder names to be excluded from the scan.

NOTE: Relevant only if projectPerFolder is True.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

wss.connectionTimeoutMinutes 

Connection timeout in minutes.

N/A

N/A

60


wss.url=https://saas.whitesourcesoftware.com/agent

#wss.url=https://app.whitesourcesoftware.com/agent

#wss.url=https://app-eu.whitesourcesoftware.com/agent 

Enable the relevant URL according to your organization's WS Server URL from your Profile page on the Server URLs panel (additionally, it can be found in the Integrate tab). Then, add the agent path.

N/A

N/A

https://saas.whitesourcesoftware.com/agent

-wss.url

Policies

Policies enable organizations to set and enforce open source adoption policies. Parameters related to policy scan settings.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

checkPolicies 

Whether to send the check policies request before updating WhiteSource.

  • If set to True, then forceUpdate must also be set to True.

  • If set to False, no policy-related data will be generated.

In case of policy violation, the scan will end with ERROR exit code POLICY_VIOLATION (-2).

The scan will end with SUCCESS. Inventory will be updated regardless of policy violations.

False 

No

forceCheckAllDependencies 

Force checks all dependencies. 

NOTE: Used only if checkPolicies and updateInventory is set to True.

Checks all policies for all dependencies introduced to the WhiteSource projects.

Checks only the new dependencies introduced to the WhiteSource projects.

False

No

updateInventory 

Whether to send an update request.


Sends an update request.

Sends a check policies request to WhiteSource without sending the update request; meaning the user will perform checkpolicies request without updating its inventory in WhiteSource.

True

No

forceUpdate 

Whether to update organization inventory regardless of policy violations.

NOTE: Used only if checkPolicies is set to True.  

Updates the project even if the checkPolicies  step failed.

  • App- Update

  • Exit code- End with SUCCESS

  • Output- No Error message

In case of a policy violation:

  • App- No update

  • Exit code- (-2)

  • Output-end with Error

False

No

forceUpdate.failBuildOnPolicyViolation 

Determines whether the Unified Agent exit code will be the result of the policy check or the result of the scan.

NOTE: Used only if forceUpdate is set to True.

The Unified Agent exit code will be the result of the policy check, meaning if there is a failure in checkpolicies the exit code is -2.


The Unified Agent exit code will be the result of the scan. (success or failure)

False

No

General

Miscellaneous parameter settings.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

offline 

Whether to create an offline update request instead of sending one to WhiteSource.

An offline request file is created in the whitesource folder next to the scanned project.

Results are sent directly to the server.

False

-offline

updateType 

If scanning a previously-scanned project, whether to append or override the results.

  • APPEND - Add the scanned libraries to the project’s inventory. If only a transitive dependency has been added, it will be added as a direct dependency, so all of the application's mechanisms such as alerts and policies will be applied on it. Use this value only in case of working with multiple build processes that are managed under the same WhiteSource project.

  • OVERRIDE- Adds the newly-added dependencies (the difference)

N/A

N/A

OVERRIDE

-updateType

ignoreSourceFiles  

Whether to only include package dependencies for all package managers/dependency resolvers. 

IMPORTANT: As of version 21.2.2, this parameter is being deprecated and will be replaced by a new parameter, fileSystemScan.



Overrides the individual x.ignoreSourceFiles parameter value of each of the package managers and ignores all source files discovered during the dependency resolution.

NOTE: When ignoreSourceFiles is used, then the includes/excludes parameter will be ignored.

No override action will occur, and each of the package manager's x.ignoreSourceFiles parameter default values will apply (unless explicitly stated).

False

No

fileSystemScan

Performs a file system scan for source files and binaries, in addition to the package manager based dependencies resolution. The files to be scanned can be controlled by the includes and excludes parameters and the resolver-specific ignoreSourceFiles parameters.

IMPORTANT: This parameter is new for version 21.2.2, and overrides the soon-to-be-deprecated ignoreSourceFiles.

Performs a file system scan for source files and binaries, in addition to the package manager based dependencies resolution. 

Only package manager based dependencies resolution is being performed. 

True

No

scanComment 

Adds a comment to a scan. The comment is then displayed in the Project Vitals panel of the Project pages, and the Plugin Request History Report. Supports UTF-8 characters.

A comment is added to the scan.

No comments will be added to the scan.

No default

-scanComment

failErrorLevel 

When set to ALL - the Unified Agent will exit on any major error (such as resolution failed, pre-steps error, etc.)

Otherwise, there is no change in behavior.

Possible values - ALL or DEFAULT (upper-case only)

N/A

N/A

"DEFAULT"

No

requireKnownSha1 

Checks for dependencies with known/unknown SHA-1. 

The Unified Agent will terminate the scan if one or more dependencies with an unknown SHA-1 were found.

The scan will continue normally.

True

-requireKnownSha1

generateProjectDetailsJson 

Whether to generate a JSON file upon scan completion containing the projectTokens and projectNames.

The Unified Agent generates a JSON file at the end of the scan named scanProjectDetails.json containing the projectTokens and projectNames.

The JSON file report will not be generated.

False

No

generateScanReport 

(For Organization and Product Administrators only) Whether to create a report in JSON format at the end of the scan, which includes information on vulnerabilities, policy violations, top fixes, and inventory details.

The filename format is '<project_name>-<yyyy-mm-dd>T<HHmmss>+<UTC offset>-scan_report.json'. 
For example: 'Demo App-2019-06-04T181226+0300-scan_report.json'

NOTES:

  • The userKey configuration parameter is mandatory for this report.

  • To generate this report, the configuration parameter updateInventory must be set to True.

  • This parameter does not work in offline mode.

A report in JSON format is created at the end of the scan, which includes information on vulnerabilities, policy violations, top fixes, and inventory details.

The report will not be generated.

False

-generateScanReport

scanReportTimeoutMinutes 

Time-out (in minutes) for the process of generating the scan report. If the timeout interval has passed then the report will not be generated, but the scan will continue.

N/A

N/A

10

No

scanReportFilenameFormat 

Controls the filename format of a generated scan report.
Valid values are: 

  • project_with_timestamp (default) - the format will be: <project_name>-<yyyy-mm-dd>T<HHmmss>+<UTC offset>-scan_report.json

  • project_only - the format will be: <project_name>-scan_report.json

  • static - the format will be scan_report.json

N/A

N/A

Default value is "project_with_timestamp"

No

updateEmptyProject 

Whether to create an empty project in WhiteSource or to update an existing project with empty data.

NOTE: This parameter affects all resolvers/package managers.

Updates/creates a project even if there are no dependencies.

Will not create/ update the empty project.

True

No

log.files.level 

For storing logs by default, this determines the log's level: 

  • Trace

  • Debug (default)

  • Info

  • Warn

  • Error

  • Off - Deactivates the feature.

NOTES:

  • The location of the logs is determined by the log.files.path parameter.

  • In the Unified Agent, each successive scan of the same library generates its own folder. The structure is: 

wss-scan-<date>-<time>

N/A

N/A

Debug

-log.files.level 

log.files.maxFileSize 

For storing logs by default, this is the maximum size in MB. If exceeding this size, the file will be overridden. 

NOTE: This reflects one run (cycle) of the Unified Agent. The files accumulate after each run.

N/A

N/A

10 MB

No

log.files.maxFilesCount 

For storing logs by default, this is the maximal count of log files. If exceeding this size, the oldest files will be overridden with new files. 

NOTE: This reflects one run (cycle) of the Unified Agent. The files accumulate after each run.

N/A

N/A

3

No

log.files.path 

Location of the created log file.

NOTE:  In Windows, do not put "\ " at the end of the value.

N/A

N/A

The default location of the logs is in the 'whitesource' folder (determined by the whiteSourceFolderPath parameter)

No

sendLogsToWss

Whether to send logs to WhiteSource.

Sends logs to WhiteSource.

Will not send logs to WhiteSource.

False

No

case.sensitive.glob

Whether the file system should be case sensitive.

The file system will be case sensitive.

The file system will not be case sensitive.

False

No

showProgressBar

Whether to display a progress bar inside logs.

NOTE: This parameter is valid for the Unified Agent only (not Prioritize).

Progress bars will be displayed inside logs.

Progress bars will not be displayed inside logs.

True

No

Package Manager Dependency Resolvers

Parameters related to package manager scan configurations.

NOTE: All Package Manager Dependency resolvers are set to True by default.

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General

Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

resolveAllDependencies 

Whether to enable or disable by default all dependency resolvers for a scan.

For example, when the following parameters are set, only npm dependencies will be resolved in this case: 
resolveAllDependencies=false
npm.resolveDependencies=true
#maven.resolveDependencies=false

When set to True, the default for all package managers' resolveDependencies parameter is set to True, unless explicitly set to False.

When set to False, the default for all package managers' resolveDependencies the parameter is set to False, unless explicitly set to True.

True

-resolveAllDependencies

excludeDependenciesFromNodes=.*commons-io.*,.*maven-model 

Comma-delimited list of regular expressions.

Specify an artifact id or multiple artifact ids (comma-delimited) to exclude the provided tree nodes and their sub-nodes from the scan.

NOTE: These will not be added to your project inventory. 

N/A

N/A

No default

No

Java

Maven

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

maven.ignoredScopes 

Define which exact scope names to ignore.

By default, the Unified Agent ignores direct dependencies with scope 'test' and 'provided'.
This value can be overridden to ignore specific scopes.

N/A

N/A

"provided" and "test"

-maven.ignoredScopes

maven.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Maven dependencies, requires "pom.xml".

In case the project is a Maven project, the resolution will start.

The Maven resolution will not start resolution.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

-maven.resolveDependencies

maven.ignoreSourceFiles  

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include pom.xml dependencies, not source files and packages.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Will ignore files from scan, those which have extensions such as:".java", ".class","pom.xml".

Will not ignore the mentioned file extensions.

False


maven.aggregateModules  

Combines all pom modules into a single WhiteSource project with an aggregated dependency flat list (no hierarchy).

Will create a single project for all modules, to be displayed as a flat list.

A project will be created for each module and displayed as a hierarchical tree.

False

-maven.aggregateModules

maven.ignorePomModules  

Whether to ignore dependency resolving of a pom.xml file containing a 'pom' value inside a packaging tag, i.e., '<packaging>pom</packaging>'.

The dependency resolver will ignore all dependencies specified inside a pom.xml file that contains a packaging tag with 'pom' value ('<packaging>pom</packaging>')

The dependency resolver will not ignore all dependencies specified inside a pom.xml file that contains a packaging tag with 'pom' value ('<packaging>pom</packaging>')

True

No

maven.runPreStep 

Whether to run "mvn clean install" command on found pom.xml folder

Will run the "mvn clean install" command

Will not run the "mvn clean install" command

False

No

maven.ignoreMvnTreeErrors 

If the command `mvn dependency:tree` fails, we try to resolve the partial output (of the command) if it exists and parse all the direct dependencies from the pom.xml file.

The scan will end with success and will send a flat list (direct only).

The scan will end with errors.

False

No

maven.environmentPath 

Path to the Maven installation in case it does not match the M2_HOME environment variable

N/A

N/A

No default

No

maven.m2RepositoryPath 

Path to .m2 folder, in case it is not available in the default location.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

maven.downloadMissingDependencies 

Allows users to disable downloading missing dependencies in Maven.

In case there is a missing dependency jar/binary in the repository, the code will try to download the missing dependency.

The downloading of missing dependencies will be disabled.

True

No

maven.additionalArguments 

Provides any parameters starting with '-' or '--', and Unified Agent should add these to the end of the Maven commands.

Example values:

  • -s=path/to/settings.xml

  • -s=path/to/settings.xml --threads=2.0C

N/A

N/A

No default

No

failErrorLevel 

Returns an error code for the following cases:

  • resolver.runPrepStep failed

  • An error occurred in collecting/running dependencies

NOTE: When set to ALL, the Unified Agent returns an error code for all errors in the scan, rather than SUCCESS. This can be useful for customers migrating from the plugins (NPM, MAVEN etc.) to the Unified Agent.

N/A

N/A

DEFAULT

No

maven.projectNameFromDependencyFile 

Whether a project name will be taken from the dependency file.

The project name will be taken from the pom.xml's 'artifactId' field. Works only when the maven resolver is the only active resolver.

If the Unified Agent identifies any additional resolvers besides Maven that are set to True, an error is generated.

The project name will be taken from the CLI/configuration file.


False

No

Gradle

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

gradle.ignoredConfigurations

 

Enables you to determine which dependency configurations to ignore in the scan.

The format is according to the following:

  • Exact configuration names to ignore.
    Values must be space-delimited.

For example: gradle.ignoredConfigurations= testCompileOnly testRuntimeOnly

ignores configurations named “testCompileOnly” and “testRuntimeOnly”.

  • Configurations can use regular expressions.

For example:gradle.ignoredConfigurations=.*test.* ignores all configuration names that contain the string "test".
NOTE: this paramter was previously named gradle.ignoredScopes

N/A

N/A

No default

No

gradle.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Gradle dependencies. Requires build.gradle or build.gradle.kts.

Resolves Gradle dependencies

Will not resolve Gradle dependencies

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

-gradle.resolveDependencies

gradle.runAssembleCommand

In case of a missing dependency, executes the 'gradle assemble' command 
NOTE: This command is executed only if `gradle.resolveDependencies` is True.

Executes the 'gradle assemble' command

Will not execute the 'gradle assemble' command

True

No

gradle.runPreStep 

The Unified Agent will add additional jars to the customer's global cache.
In most Gradle versions the "gradle dependencies" command we run does this.

For each build.gradle file that the Unified Agent finds:

  1. Unified Agent will copy the Gradle project to a temporary system folder.

  2. Inside of each copied project's build.gradle file, the Unified Agent will add a task (named 'copyDependencies') in order to download the missing dependencies

  3. Unified Agent will run 'gradle copyDependencies' - this step will add the missing dependencies to the user's global cache

Will depend on Gradle dependencies to fill out missing cache dependencies.

False

No

gradle.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will include only package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

The scan includes only package dependencies, not source files.

When using the dependency resolver, it will include package dependencies, plus source files.

False

No

gradle.aggregateModules 

Whether to create a single project for all modules.

Creates a single project for all modules.

A project will be created for each module. The name of the project will be equal to the name of the module (if so, projectName will be ignored).

False

-gradle.aggregateModules

gradle.preferredEnvironment 

When set to 'wrapper', the Unified Agent will run the 'gradlew' wrapper command. If set to 'gradle', it will use the built-in gradle command.

N/A

N/A

gradle

No

gradle.localRepositoryPath

Paths to the gradle local repository.

For example, in Windows, the path can be defined as the following:
C:\\Users\\JSmith\\.gradle\\caches\\modules-2\\files-2.1

NOTE: From 19.5.3 it can handle a list of paths with comma/space-delimited.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

gradle.wrapperPath 

The path to the gradle wrapper.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

gradle.downloadMissingDependencies 

Enables the user to disable downloading of missing dependencies in Gradle.

Enables the Unified Agent to download missing dependencies.

The Unified Agent will not download missing dependencies.

True

No

gradle.additionalArguments 

Enables users to add additional arguments to the Unified Agent's existing commands. The existing commands are gradle dependencies or gradle wrapper dependencies.  This works the following way:

Users can provide any parameters starting with '-' or '--', and Unified Agent will add these at the end 

For example:

  • -Pbranch=dev -PbuildWithSources=false

  • --no-daemon --info

  • -Pbranch=dev -PbuildWithSources=false --no-daemon --info

N/A

N/A

No default

No

gradle.includedConfigurations

Enables you to determine which dependency configurations to include in the scan.

The format is according to the following:

  • Exact configuration names to include.

Values should be space-delimited.
For example:

gradle.includedConfigurations= compileOnly testCompileOnly

Includes configurations named “compileOnly” and “testCompileOnly”.

  • Configurations can include regular expressions.

For example:

gradle.includedConfigurations=.*Only.*

Includes all configuration names that contain the string "Only"
NOTE: this parameter was previously named gradle.includedScopes 

N/A

N/A

No default

No

gradle.excludeModules 

Enables excluding specific modules in the Gradle scan. 

The format is according to the following:

  • Exact modules to exclude. Values should be space delimited. For example: gradle.excludeModules= Dev Prod - exclude scopes named 'Dev' and 'Prod'.

  • Regular expressions. For example: gradle.excludeModules=.*Dev.* includes all module names that contain (anywhere in their name) the string "Dev".

N/A

N/A

No default

No

gradle.includeModules 

Enables including specific modules in the Gradle scan.

The format is according to the following:

  • Exact modules to include. Values must be space delimited. For example: gradle.includeModules= Dev Prod - include modules named 'Dev' and 'Prod'.

  • Regular expressions. For example: gradle.includeModules=.*Dev.* includes all module names that contains these characters.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

gradle.innerModulesAsDependencies

When set to false, this parameter ignores and excludes all the modules dependencies from the resolution scan.

Includes all the modules dependencies from the resolution scan."

Ignores and excludes all the modules dependencies from the resolution scan.

True

No

Ant

For more information regarding Apache Ant integration, refer here.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

ant.resolveDependencies 

Whether to scan Apache Ant-based projects.

In cases where the 'ant.pathIdIncludes' parameter is not provided, the Unified Agent will look for the following extensions in your project: jar, war, ear, par, rar, dll, exe, ko, so, msi, zip, tar, tar.gz, swc, swf.

Scans Apache Ant-based projects.

Will not scan Apache Ant-based projects.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

ant.pathIdIncludes 

Regular expression or comma/space-delimited list of path ids (specified in the build.xml file) to include in the scan.

NOTE: In order for this parameter's value to have an impact on the scan, the parameter 'ant.resolveDependencies' must be set to True.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ".*"

No

ant.external.parameters 

List of key=value (separated by comma), these values are equal to the ANT <property> XML tag.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

ant.ivy.resolveDependencies

Whether to scan Ivy-based projects.

Scans Ivy-based projects.

Will not scan Ivy-based projects.

False

No

ant.ivy.ignoredConfigurations

Enables you to determine which dependency configurations to ignore in the scan.

The format is according to the following:

  • Exact configuration names to ignore.
    Values must be space-delimited.

  • Configurations can use regular expressions.

N/A

N/A

None (all configurations are included)

No

Bazel

Refer here for Bazel.

JavaScript

NPM + Yarn

For more information regarding NPM integration, refer here.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

npm.ignoreDirectoryPatterns

A string parameter that defines the list of directory patterns which will be ignored when searching for the package.json dependency file during the npm resolution. The list of directories is a comma/semi-colon delimited list.

N/A

N/A

example,examples,test,.ws_bower

No

npm.resolveDependencies  

Whether to resolve npm dependencies.

NOTE: 'package.json' dependency files defined within directories defined by the npm.ignoreDirectoryPatterns are not scanned, and therefore dependencies declared in these files are ignored. For example, the default set of directories to ignore will not include the following dependency files:

*/examples/*package.json

*/example/*package.json

*/.ws_bower/*package.json

*/test/*package.json

Resolves NPM/yarn dependencies.

  • If a yarn.lock file is identified, then yarn resolution is performed.

  • If package-lock.lock file is identified, then NPM resolution is performed.

  • If both lock files are found or missing, the npm.yarnProject 
    parameter will be used to determine which resolution to perform.

Will not resolve NPM/yarn dependencies.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

-npm.resolveDependencies

npm.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the npm resolver, ignore or include the js files outside the node_modules folder.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Ignores the js files outside the node_modules folder.

Includes the js files outside the node_modules folder.

True

No

npm.includeDevDependencies 

Whether to include dev dependencies.

Adds devDependencies to the scan

Only the prod dependencies will be scanned.

False

-npm.includeDevDependencies

npm.runPreStep 

Whether to run npm install or yarn install on found package.json file.

Installs the NPM/yarn project.

  • If a yarn.lock file is identified, then yarn install is executed.

  • If package-lock.lock file is identified, then npm install is executed.

  • If both lock files are found or missing, the npm.yarnProject 
    parameter will be used to determine which installation command to perform.

Will not Install the NPM/yarn project.

False

No

npm.ignoreNpmLsErrors 

Whether to ignore errors of the 'npm list' command.

The scan will end with SUCCESS status + hierarchy tree.

The scan will end with SUCCESS status + flat list.

False

No

npm.ignoreScripts 

Whether to ignore the scripts in your project's package.json file.

NOTES:

  • Used only if npm.runPreStep = True

  • Since 20.4.2 the flag is also supported for Yarn.

The Unified Agent executes npm install --ignore-scripts, and the scripts in your project's package.json file will not be run.

The npm install command will run and the scripts in your project's package.json file will be run.

False

No

npm.yarnProject 

Whether this is a yarn project (or not).

Resolves yarn projects

Will not resolve yarn projects

False

No

npm.accessToken

The access token value provided by the relevant environment (Microsoft Visual Studio or Artifactory) to fetch required data from the NPM registry.

N/A

N/A

Empty

No

npm.identifyByNameAndVersion 

Defines whether to fetch package data from npm registry (either private or public).

The Unified Agent will use only the name and the version of the package.

Fetches package data from npm registry (either private or public).

False

No

npm.yarn.frozenLockfile 

Enables running the pre-step with the --frozen.lockfile yarn parameter.
NOTE: If enabled, then the following parameters also need to be set to True: npm.runPreStep 
and npm.yarnProject.

Runs the pre-step with the --frozen.lockfile yarn parameter.

Will not run the pre-step with the --frozen.lockfile yarn parameter.

False

No

npm.resolveMainPackageJsonOnly

In npm projects, more than one package.json file can exist. Therefore, you can decide to resolve only the main package.json file (the one in the root directory) or all package.json files.

The Unified Agent checks if there is a package.json file in the folder passed as the -d parameter. If no such file exists, the scan will fail; otherwise, the Unified Agent will scan only this package.json.

The Unified Agent resolves all package.json files

False

No

npm.removeDuplicateDependencies 

Whether to remove duplicate dependencies during npm dependency resolution.

Removes duplicate dependencies during npm dependency resolution.

Includes duplicate dependencies during npm dependency resolution.

True

No

npm.resolveAdditionalDependencies

Whether to resolve global dependencies and require modules.

NOTE: Require is the equivalent to import in other languages.

Resolves global dependencies and require modules.

Resolves only the dependencies that are declared in the package.json.

False

No

npm.resolveLockFile 

Whether the Unified Agent will rely on the manifest (package.json) and lock file (package-lock.json) for the resolution and not rely on NPM commands. If the lock file is missing, the detection will be based on the node_modules folder.  

The Unified Agent uses the package.json and package-lock.json to get the hierarchy tree. If the package-lock.json is missing, the detection is based on the node_modules folder.

The Unified Agent runs npm commands to get the hierarchy tree.

True

No

npm.projectNameFromDependencyFile 

Whether the project name will be taken from the dependency file. This is a standalone parameter for the NPM resolver only, taking effect only when the npm resolver is the only active resolver.

If the Unified Agent identifies any additional resolvers besides npm that are set to True, an error is generated.

NOTE: If a productVersion was specified, it will override the project version and be part of the project's name.

The project name will be taken from the package.json file.

The project name will be taken from the CLI/configuration file.

False

No

npm.failOnNpmLsErrors 

Whether to fail and exit the scan in case of npm ls errors.

In case an error occurs while running npm ls, the following log will be printed and the scan will stop: Errors found in 'npm ls' command, while flag npm.failOnNpmLsErrors is true program will exit.

In case of an error in npm ls the Unified Agent will continue to run and get as much dependencies information as possible.

NULL (meaning False -  the scan will not fail on npm ls errors)

No

npm.resolveGlobalPackages 

When scanning Docker images, and npm is not available, in order to extract global dependencies, this parameter eliminates the need to rely on NPM being installed and available; as the Unified Agent identifies all the global npm packages installed on the Docker image. When true - the Unified Agent will scan every package.json file inside node_modules directory. This parameter is mostly relevant when scanning Docker images.

Resolves all package.json files under the node_modules folder.

Will not scan package.json files under the node_modules folder.

False

No

Bower

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

bower.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Bower project folders.

Resolves Bower project folders

Will not resolve Bower project folders

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

bower.ignoreSourceFiles  

When using the dependency resolver, whether to include package dependencies or package dependencies + source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Includes only package dependencies

Include package dependencies and source files

False

No

bower.runPreStep  

Whether to install your Bower project.

Installs your Bower project 

Does not install your Bower project 

False

No

C#

NuGet

For more information regarding NuGet integration, refer here.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

nuget.resolveDependencies

Whether to resolve NuGet packages.config and .csproj files.

Resolves NuGet packages.config and .csproj files.

Will not resolve NuGet packages.config and .csproj files.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

nuget.resolvePackagesConfigFiles 

Whether to resolve packages.config file at the project's root. 

NOTE: In order for this parameter's value to impact the scan, the parameter nuget.resolveDependencies must be set to True.

Resolves packages.config files.

Will not  resolve packages.config files

True

No

nuget.resolveCsProjFiles 

Whether to resolve *.csproj file at the project's root.

NOTE: In order for this parameter's value to impact the scan, the parameter nuget.resolveDependencies must be set to True.

Resolves *.csproj file at the project's root.

Will not resolve *.csproj file at the project's root.

True

No

nuget.preferredEnvironment 

Defines the preferred NuGet restore command. Available values are nuget and dotnet.

NOTE:  This parameter will be used only if the nuget.runPreStep parameter is set to True.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

nuget.packagesDirectory  

Provides a path to the directory where WhiteSource temporary files will be created (and removed at the end of a scan).

NOTE: Provide a short directory, in order to avoid errors related to the path size during the restore command.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

nuget.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, whether to include package dependencies or package dependencies + source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Includes only package dependencies

Includes package dependencies and source files

True

No

nuget.runPreStep 

Whether to run nuget restore on found packages.config files and dotnet restore on found csprojfiles in order to download the project's dependencies.

Runs dotnet restore on csproj files and nuget restore on found packages.config files in order to download all dependencies to a temporary folder, scans this folder and deletes it after fetching the dependencies.

Will not run dotnet restore and nuget restore on found packages.config and csproj files.

False

No

nuget.resolveNuspecFiles 

Indicates whether to resolve *.nuspec file at the project's root.

NOTE: In order for this parameter's value to impact the scan, the parameter nuget.resolveDependencies must be set to True.

Resolves *.nuspec file at the project's root.

Will not resolve *.nuspec file at the project's root.

True

No

nuget.resolveAssetsFiles 

Resolves obj/project.assets.json file for new .NET dependency management structure.

N/A

N/A

True

No

Paket

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

paket.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve .NET dependencies using the Paket dependency manager.

Paket projects are resolved.

Paket projects will not be resolved.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

paket.ignoredGroups 

Which Paket scopes to ignore.

Values are comma/semi-colon/space delimited. GLOB patterns are supported, in addition to exact names.

N/A

N/A

No default (empty)

No

paket.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the Paket resolver, defines whether to ignore the .NET Paket files outside the packages folder.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Will ignore files from scan, those which have extensions such as: .nupkg, .dll, .exe, .cs, .js

Will not ignore the mentioned file extensions.

True

No

paket.runPreStep 

Runs "paket install" on found Paket folder.

Will run the "paket install" command

Will not run the command.

False

No

paket.exePath 

The path to the paket.exe file used to run "paket install".

N/A

N/A

No default (empty)

No

Python 

Note the following:

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

python.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve python dependencies.

"requirements.txt"  or "pipfile" are required.

Resolves python dependencies

Will not resolve python dependencies.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

python.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Ignores *.py files in scan.

Will not ignore files which have ".py" extension.

True

No

python.ignorePipInstallErrors 

Whether to ignore errors of 'pip download -r requirements.txt' command.

Ignores download errors, and try to download packages one by one

Will consider such errors and react accordingly

False

No

python.installVirtualenv 

Whether to install the pip 'virtualenv' on --user.

Installs a virtual environment by running "python -m pip install --user virtualenv"

Will not run the command 

False

No

python.resolveHierarchyTree 

Whether to resolve the hierarchy tree or a flat list of dependencies, requires "requirements.txt" like files.

Will install pipdeptree and use it to resolve and find the dependency hierarchy tree

Will resolve a flat list only

True

No

python.requirementsFileIncludes 

Space-delimited list of dependency filenames specifying which files to be scanned for dependencies, instead of "requirements.txt", when using pip package manager.

N/A

N/A

requirements.txt

No

python.resolveSetupPyFiles 

Whether to resolve python dependencies in setup.py files, and if so, it executes the setup.py script in order to install and resolve dependencies.

Executes setup.py in order to install and resolve dependencies

Will ignore setup.py files

False

No

python.runPipenvPreStep 

Whether to run pipenv install command. If so, it requires "pipfile".

Runs the 'pipenv install' command.

Will not run the command

False

No

python.pipenvDevDependencies 

Whether or not to install "dev" dependencies, if so it requires "python.runPipenvPreStep=true"

Adds --dev to the command, resulting in: "pipenv install --dev"

Will not adds --dev to the command

False

No

python.IgnorePipenvInstallErrors 

Whether to ignore errors of the 'pipenv run pip download' command.

Ignores download errors, and try to download packages one by one

Will consider such errors and react accordingly

False

No

python.resolveGlobalPackages 

Whether to resolve global packages or not. If so, it requires global package folders called site-packages or dist-packages in your scan directory.

If set to True and there is a site-packages or dist-packages folder, the resolution will be based on the packages under those folders. 

Will not resolve global packages

False

No

python.resolvePipEditablePackages

The parameter handles requirements.txt files with rows (packages) with the -e flag.
Additionally, it resolves the dev dependencies of the package itself 
NOTE: Currently supported only for pip.

Resolves the dev dependencies on the first scan.

Will not resolve the dev dependencies on the first scan.

False

No

python.path

Points to the python executable path.

If the executable path is already set in the environment variables, then just the executable name can be defined, e.g. in Linux  "python2.7".

NOTE: This parameter replaces "python" executable with the value defined.

N/A

N/A

python

No

python.pipPath

Enables you to use different versions of pip. If set to pip3, will run "pip3" and "python -m pip3" instead of "pip" and "python -m pip".

N/A

N/A

pip

No

python.runPoetryPreStep

Whether to run "poetry install" command.

Will run the "poetry install" command

Will not run the "poetry install" command

False

No

python.includePoetryDevDependencies

Whether to scan Poetry project dev dependencies.

Scans Poetry project dev dependencies

Will ignore dev dependencies

False

No

python.localPackagePathsToInstall

A space-delimited list of local package paths that will be installed during the pre-step, if is required.

N/A

N/A

Empty

No

python.indexUrl

The local Pypi repository url, besides the official Pypi repository. Use if you have dependencies downloaded from a different source than the default pypi.

N/A

N/A

pypi.org

No

python.includePipenvDevDependencies

Enables you to include or exclude dev dependencies.

Include dev dependencies in the resolution.

Exclude dev dependencies in the resolution.

True

No

Go

For more information regarding Go integration, refer here.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

go.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Go dependencies.

Will resolve Go projects.

Will not resolve Go projects.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

go.collectDependenciesAtRuntime 

Whether to collect Go dependencies at runtime (similar to the 'runPreStep' parameter for the other languages).

When set to True, refer here for an explanation.

Will run the command relevant to the select dependency manager.

Will not run the command

False

No

go.dependencyManager 

Determines the Go dependency manager for use when scanning a Go project. Valid values are:

  • dep

  • godep

  • vndr

  • gogradle

  • govendor

  • gopm

  • glide

  • vgo

  • modules

If left empty, the Unified Agent will first try to resolve the dependencies using the first package manager from this list. If it fails, it continues and tries the next one until it succeeds.

N/A

N/A

No default (empty)

No

go.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Will ignore .go. files from scan.

Will not ignore .go. files from the scan.

False

No

go.glide.ignoreTestPackages 

When using the Glide resolver, whether to ignore test packages defined in the 'testImport' section of the 'glide.yaml' file.

Ignore test packages from the scan.

Does not ignore the mentioned test packages from the scan.

True

No

go.gogradle.enableTaskAlias 

Enables/disables task aliasing for gogradle. 

Set to True when using gogradle dependency manager and the gradle argument (in 'gradle.properties') includes 'gograld.alias=true'. 

Enables task aliasing for gogradle.

Disables task aliasing for gogradle.

False

No

Modules

Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

go.modules.resolveDependencies

Whether to resolve Go Modules dependencies.

NOTE: To enable this, you must also set go.resolveDependencies to false.

Resolves Go Modules dependencies.

Will not resolve Go Modules dependencies.

False

No

go.modules.ignoreSourceFiles

Will perform package manager based dependencies resolution only or include source files as well.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Will ignore Go source files during the scan.

Will not ignore Go source file.

True

No

go.modules.removeDuplicateDependencies

Whether to remove duplicate dependencies during Go Modules dependency resolution.

Removes duplicate dependencies during Go Modules dependency resolution.

Includes duplicate dependencies during Go Modules dependency resolution.

True

No

go.modules.includeTestDependencies

Whether to scan Go Modules project test dependencies.

Scans Go Modules project test dependencies.

Will not scan Go Modules project test dependencies.

False

No

Bazel

Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

bazel.resolveDependencies

Whether to resolve Bazel dependencies

Resolves Bazel dependencies

Will not resolve Bazel dependencies

True

No

bazel.runPreStep

Indicates whether to perform a pre-step - install dependencies in case they are not installed.

Prior to scanning, the Unified Agent will run the Bazel build and Bazel sync.

Prior to scanning, the Unified Agent will not run the Bazel build and Bazel sync.

False

No

Scala

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

sbt.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Scala dependencies (using sbt).

Will resolve Scala dependencies.

The Scala dependencies will not be resolved.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false)

No

sbt.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will include only package dependencies, not source files (file extensions .scala and .sbt).

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Will ignore such source files in the scan.

Will scan such source files.

True

No

sbt.aggregateModules 

Whether to create a single project for all modules.

Will gather all Scala modules' scanned dependencies into one project in the WhiteSource application.

A project will be created individually for each module. The name of the project will be equal to the name of the module (projectName will be ignored in this case).

False

No

sbt.runPreStep 

Whether to run "sbt compile" on found in the Scala project folder.

Will run the "sbt compile" command.

Will not run the command.

False

No

sbt.includedScopes

Describes which scopes should be scanned in the Scala resolver. Users can define additional scopes.

N/A

N/A

The default values are "compile" and "runtime"

No

R

WhiteSource supports integration with R via the Packrat package manager, but can also be used by customers not using Packrat. The configuration parameters that are specifically related to the R programming language include the following:

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

r.resolveDependencies

Whether to resolve R dependencies defined in the DESCRIPTION file.

Resolves R dependencies.

Will not resolve R dependencies

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

r.runPreStep

Whether to run the Rscript command.

Runs the Rscript command

Will not run the Rscript command

False

No

r.ignoreSourceFiles

When using the dependency resolver, it will include only package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Includes only package dependencies.

The scan will include package dependencies + source files.

True

No

r.cranMirrorUrl

The repository for downloading the R packages while running the pre-step.

NOTE: Required when r.runPreStep is True.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

r.packageManager

Describes which type of R package manager the UA should use. The default value is packrat. Setting the value to 'None' will scan R dependencies without using any package manager - it will only use basic R commands e.g. Rscript -e "installed.packages()".


N/A

N/A

'packrat'

No

PHP

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

php.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve PHP dependencies (using Composer).

Resolves PHP dependencies

Will not  resolve PHP dependencies

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

php.runPreStep 

Whether to run 'composer install' on the folder.

Runs 'composer install' on the project folder.

Will not run 'composer install' on the project folder.

False

No

php.includeDevDependencies 

Whether to scan PHP project dev dependencies.

Scans PHP project dev dependencies.

Will not scan PHP project dev dependencies.

False

No

php.removeDuplicateDependencies

Whether to remove duplicate dependencies during PHP dependency resolution.

Removes duplicate dependencies during PHP dependency resolution.

Includes duplicate dependencies during PHP dependency resolution.

False

No

php.ignoreSourceFiles

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

The scan includes only package dependencies, not source files.

When using the dependency resolver, it will include package dependencies, plus source files.

True

No

Ruby

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

ruby.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Ruby dependencies.

Will resolve Ruby dependencies.

Will not resolve Ruby dependencies.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

ruby.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will include only package dependencies, not source files (file extension .rb).

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Will include only such package dependencies.

Will scan such source files. 

True

No

ruby.installMissingGems 

Whether to install missing Ruby dependencies gem files.

Installs missing Ruby dependencies gem files.

Will not install missing Ruby dependencies gem files.

False

No

ruby.runBundleInstall 

Whether to run bundle install on the Ruby project folder.

Runs bundle install on the Ruby project file folder.

Will not run bundle install.

False

No

ruby.overwriteGemFile 

(relevant only if you enabled ruby.runBundleInstall

Whether to overwrite Gemfile.lock or gems.locked after running Bundle Install.

Overwrites Gemfile.lock or gems.locked after running Bundle Install.

Will not overwrite Gemfile.lock or gems.locked after running Bundle Install.

False

No

HTML

For more information regarding HTML integration, refer here.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

html.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve JavaScript dependencies from HTML files.

Resolve JavaScript dependencies from HTML files.

Will not resolve JavaScript dependencies from HTML files.

True

No

Objective C, Swift

CocoaPods

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

cocoapods.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve CocoaPods dependencies (using CocoaPods).

Resolves CocoaPods dependencies 

Will not resolve CocoaPods dependencies 

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

cocoapods.runPreStep 

Whether to run pod install on the folder.

Runs pod install on the folder

Will not run the install command

False

No

cocoapods.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Will only include package dependencies

Will only include package dependencies and source files

True

No

Rust

Cargo

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

cargo.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve cargo dependencies. Cargo.toml should exist in the scanned directory.

Resolves cargo dependencies.

Will not  resolve cargo dependencies.

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

cargo.runPreStep  

Searches for Cargo.toml and if found, runs "cargo build" on your project's root folder.

Runs "cargo build" on your project's root folder.

Will not run cargo build" on your project's root folder.

False

No

cargo.ignoreSourceFiles  

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include package dependencies, not .rs files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

When using the dependency resolver, it will only scan all package dependencies, not .rs files.

The Unified Agent will only scan .rs files

True

No

Elixir, Erlang

Hex

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

hex.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Elixir or Erlang dependencies.

Resolves Elixir or Erlang dependencies

Will not resolve Elixir or Erlang dependencies

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

hex.runPreStep 

Whether to run the mix deps.get command.

Runs the mix deps.get command

Will not run the mix deps.get command

False

No

hex.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will include only package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Only includes package dependencies

Will only include package dependencies and source files

True

No

hex.aggregateModules 

Whether to create a single project for all modules.

Creates a single project for all modules, to be displayed as a flat list

A project will be created for each module and displayed as a hierarchical tree.

False

No

Haskell

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

haskell.resolveDependencies 

Whether to resolve Haskell dependencies using the Cabal package manager. 

Resolves Haskell Cabal projects

Will not resolve Haskell Cabal projects

True
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false

No

haskell.runPreStep 

Runs the 'cabal sandbox init' and 'cabal install' commands on each package/project found. 

for cabal version 3.* the UA will use the command "cabal new-build" and resolve the file plan.json

Runs 'cabal install' 

If sandbox is missing it will run 'cabal sandbox init' (before cabal install) 

The Unified Agent assumes that a sandbox already exists in each package, and will fail otherwise.

False

No

haskell.ignoreSourceFiles 

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Ignores .hs and .lhs files from scan.

Will not ignore .hs and .lhs files from the scan.

True 

No

haskell.ignorePreStepErrors 

Ignores errors from preStep commands and continues trying to resolve dependencies.

Behaves according to 'failErrorLevel' flag

Will continue the scan, ignoring any errors in the pre-step process.

False

No

Ocaml

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

ocaml.resolveDependencies

Whether to resolve dependencies.

Resolves Ocaml projects.

Will not resolve Ocaml projects.

False
(except for when resolveAllDependencies=false)

No

ocaml.runPreStep

Whether to install required dependencies.

Installs required dependencies.

Will not install required dependencies.

False

No

ocaml.ignoreSourceFiles

When using the dependency resolver, it will only include package dependencies, not source files.

NOTE: Only relevant when fileSystemScan is true.

Includes package dependencies, not source files.

Will include package dependencies and source files.

True

No

ocaml.switchName

switch name used for install current project dependencies

N/A

N/A

The default uses activated switch

No

ocaml.ignoredScopes

Define which exact scope names to ignore. Available values are

  • with-test

  • with-doc

  • none

N/A

N/A

No, default is "with-test with-doc"

No

ocaml.aggregateModules

Whether to aggregate all opam packages/modules.

Aggregates all opam packages/modules.

Will not  aggregate opam packages/modules.

False

No

Bazel

Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

bazel.resolveDependencies

Whether to resolve Bazel dependencies

Resolves Bazel dependencies

Will not resolve Bazel dependencies

True

No

bazel.runPreStep

Indicates whether to perform a pre-step - install dependencies in case they are not installed.

Prior to scanning, the Unified Agent will run the Bazel build and Bazel sync.

Prior to scanning, the Unified Agent will not run the Bazel build and Bazel sync.

False

No

Includes/Excludes Glob Patterns 

Which files to include/exclude in the scan (file extensions, file names. folder names, etc.). These parameters can receive a list of arguments delimited by a comma, semicolon, or space.

Use only one exclude line and one include line.

           excludes=**/*sources.jar **/*javadoc.jar

Archive Properties

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Properties related to archive file extraction (.rar,.zip, .jar).

The drill-down hierarchy is limited to a maximum of seven and can be modified in the configuration file.
By default, the drill-down hierarchy level is zero - no drill-down.

For a list of supported archive file types, refer here.

Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

#archiveExtractionDepth 

The number of levels to extract from archive files (up to 10)

N/A

N/A

0 (no scan will occur)

No

#archiveIncludes=**/*.war **/*.ear 

Comma, space or line-delimited list specifying which archive files to include during the scan

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

#archiveExcludes=**/*sources.jar 

Comma, space or line-delimited list specifying which archive files to exclude during the scan

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

Scan Modes

Scan mode options (Docker images, Docker containers, etc.).

Docker Images

For more information regarding Docker images, see here.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

docker.scanImages

Runs scans on all or specified images. 

When set to True, only Docker image scan will occur. This will include the detection of Linux packages, and a general scan of the image file system for package managers' based resolution and identification of source files/binaries.

See here for more information on scanning Docker images.

Only the Docker image scan will occur.

Docker image scan will not take place.

False

-docker.scanImages

docker.includes 

Comma, space or line-delimited list specifying which images to include in the scan.

Values provided should come from either of the following:

  • Repository (image name)

  • Tag

  • Image ID

N/A

N/A

The default value is ".*.*"

(All images will be scanned)

No

docker.excludes 

Comma, space or line-delimited list specifying which images to exclude in the scan.

Values provided should come from either of the following:

  • Repository (image name)

  • Tag

  • Image ID

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

(No images will be excluded)

No

docker.pull.enable 

Whether to execute "pull" from all from all relevant registries

Executes 'pull' from all relevant registries

Will not pull anything

False

No

docker.pull.images 

Pull Docker images that match the specified filter (string).

Can include regular expressions or a list of space-delimited values.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

(all images will be pulled)


No

docker.pull.maxImages 

Defines the maximum number of images to be pulled. When this number of pulled images is reached, no more images are pulled.

N/A

N/A

10

No

docker.pull.tags 

Pulls Docker images whose tags match the specified filter (string).

Can include regular expressions or a list of space-delimited values.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

(all images will be pulled)

No

docker.pull.digest 

Pull Docker images whose digests match the specified filter (string).

Can include regular expressions or a list of space-delimited values.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

(all images will be pulled)



No

docker.delete.force 

Enables WhiteSource to use Docker to delete images via the 'force' flag. This is required if the user pulled images that are related to other images, so in this case a regular delete may not work. 

NOTE: Use this parameter with caution.

WhiteSource uses Docker to delete images via the 'force' flag.

WhiteSource will not use Docker to delete images via the 'force' flag.

False

No

docker.login.sudo 

Whether the Unified Agent will run 'sudo docker login'.

The Unified Agent will run 'sudo docker login'.

The Unified Agent will not run 'sudo docker login'.

True

No

docker.projectNameFormat 

Determine's the Docker project's name's format.

  • If the value is set to default, the project name created in WhiteSource comprises the Docker repository name, tag and ID, in the following format:

<Image Name> <Image Tag> <Image ID>
  • If the value is set to repositoryNameAndTag, then the project name created in WhiteSource comprises the Docker repository name and tag, in the following format:

<Image Name> <Image Tag>
  • If the value is set to repositoryName,  the project name comprises only the Docker repository name:

<Image Name>

N/A

N/A

"DEFAULT"

No

docker.aws.enable 

Enables pulling Docker Images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).

NOTE: If set to True, the  'docker.scanImages' and 'docker.pull.enable' parameter values are also set to True.

Pulls Docker Images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).

Will not pull Docker Images from Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR).

False

No

docker.aws.registryIds 

The Registry IDs list on Amazon Web Services (the AWS 12-digit account IDs that correspond to the Amazon ECR registries). The  list must include the following:

  • Full registry IDs and no GLOB patterns. 

  • At least one registry ID. Values are space-delimited.

NOTE: Required if docker.aws.enable=true.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.azure.enable 

Enables pulling Docker Images from Azure Container registry. 

NOTE: If set to True, the  'docker.scanImages' and 'docker.pull.enable' parameter values must also be set to True.

Pulls Docker Images from Azure Container registry. 

Will not pull Docker Images from Azure Container registry. 

False

No

docker.azure.userName 

Username for Azure Container registry. 

NOTE: Required if docker.azure.enable is True.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.azure.userPassword 

Password for Azure Container registry.

NOTE: Required if if docker.azure.enable=true. However, it is not mandatory if you already logged in manually to your Azure account via the Azure Client CLI.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.azure.registryNames 

Docker registry names in Azure Container registry, space-delimited.

NOTE: Required if docker.azure.enable=true.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.azure.authenticationType

Whether to use “containerRegistry” or "userAccount" as the authentication type.

Using  "userAccount" login method requiere setting should be filled "docker.azure.userName" and "docker.azure.userPassword"

Using  "containerRegistry", login method  will login to each registry using registry username and password provided in config file in the param docker.azure.registryAuthenticationParameters

N/A

N/A

userAccount

No

docker.azure.registryAuthenticationParameters

Registry authentication parameters should contain username and password for each registry in the following format <registryUsername>:<registryPassword>. If there are more than one registry contain in docker.azure.registryNames param then username and password should be provided separated by space:

<registry1UserName>:<registry1Password> <registry2UserName>:<registry2Password>

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.artifactory.enable 

Enables pulling Docker Images from the Artifactory Pro Docker registry. 

NOTE: Verify that the  'docker.scanImages' and 'docker.pull.enable' parameter values are also set to True.

Pulls Docker Images from the Artifactory Pro Docker registry. 

Will not pull Docker Images from the Artifactory Pro Docker registry.

False

No

docker.artifactory.url 

Artifactory URL including http:// or https:// and contextpath (Artifactory default contextPath is “/artifactory" )

NOTE:

  • Required if if docker.artifactory.enable=true.

  • Where read-only users are created via docker.artifactory.dockerAccessMethod, this must consist of http/s://<public server name>:<HTTP/S port>/<public context path>.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.artifactory.pullUrl 

  • If ‘docker.artifactory.pullUrl’ is empty, use original behavior of 'docker.artifactory.url'

  • If ‘docker.artifactory.pullUrl’ is not empty use it as URL to docker [login/pull] commands while ‘docker.artifactory.url’ is used to run REST API command for artifactory.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.artifactory.userName 

Username for Artifactory Pro Docker registry

NOTE: Required if docker.artifactory.enable=true.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.artifactory.userPassword 

Password for Artifactory Pro Docker registry.

NOTE: Required if docker.artifactory.enable=true.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.artifactory.repositoriesNames 

Repository names in Artifactory Pro Docker registry, space-delimited list.

NOTE: Required if docker.artifactory.enable=true.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.artifactory.dockerAccessMethod 

Required when the user has read-only access.

Values are: repopathsubdomainport.

In case customers use port method 'docker.artifactory.dockerAccessMethod=port', 'repository port' must be added to each repository in ‘docker.artifactory.repositoriesNames' in this format: <repositoryName>:<repositoryPort>

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.hub.enabled 

Enables pulling Docker Images from the Docker Hub registry. 

NOTE: Verify that the 'docker.scanImages' and 'docker.pull.enable' parameter values are also set to True.

Pulls Docker Images from the Docker Hub registry. 

Will not pull Docker Images from the Docker Hub registry. 

False

No

docker.hub.userName 

Username for Docker Hub registry.

NOTE: Required if docker.hub.enable=true

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.hub.userPassword 

Password required for Password for Azure Container registry.

NOTE: Required if docker.hub.enable=true

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.hub.organizationsNames 

Space-delimited list of organizations under the user to be scanned.

NOTE: Required if docker.hub.enable=true.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

docker.scanTarFiles

Used when the user supplies the tar file of a Docker image.

The Unified Agent will scan the .tar file as a Docker image.

The Unified Agent will not scan the .tar file as a Docker image.

False

No

docker.gcr.repositories

A list of repositories, comma-delimited.
If empty, the Unified Agent will use the default repository.

Example value:
gcr.io/whitesource-main,gcr.io/whitesource-johnsmith

N/A

N/A

Empty

No

docker.gcr.enable

Enables pulling Docker Images from Google Container Registry with Docker.

NOTE: Verify that the  docker.scanImages and docker.pull.enable parameter values are also set to 'true'

Pulls Docker Images from Google Container Registry with Docker.

Will not pull Docker Images from Google Container Registry with Docker.

False

No

docker.gcr.account

Email of Google Container Registry account.

N/A

N/A

Empty

No

docker.layers

Enables users scanning docker images to receive information regarding packages in layer granularity.  The layer granularity can be viewed in the interface under the hierarchical display.

Provides information packages in layer granularity. The scan will split the result into layers, each layer contains all packages/libraries and files found under the layer (in case a package was added at layer 2 and deleted from 3, it will not appear at all in the result, since its not part of the final result). 

Will not provide the aforementioned information.

False

No

Docker Containers

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

docker.scanContainers 

Scan all or specified containers. 
When set to True, only Docker container scan will occur. This will include the detection of Linux packages, and a general scan of the container file system for package managers' based resolution and identification of source files/binaries.

Before starting a container scan, run the command "docker ps -a" to check for listed containers.
See here for more information on scanning Docker images.

Only the Docker container scan will occur.

Docker container scan will not take place.

False

No

docker.containerIncludes 

Comma, space or line-delimited list specifying which containers to include in the scan.

Values provided should come from any of the following:

  • Container ID

  • Container name

  • Image name

N/A

N/A

The default value is "*" (all containers will be scanned)

No

docker.containerExcludes 

Comma, space or line separated list specifying which containers to exclude in the scan.

Values provided should come from any of the following:

  • Container ID

  • Container name

  • Image name

N/A

N/A

The default value is "" (no container will be excluded)

No

Linux Package Manager Settings

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

scanPackageManager 

Scans Linux packages by their file name and version. Supported package types are Debian, RPM, Alpine, Arch Linux, and DNF.

Depending on the package type, one of the following commands will be run:

  • Debian: dpkg -l

  • RPM: rpm -qa

  • Alpine: apk -vv info

  • Arch Linux: pacman -Q

  • DNF/ centOS:8 - no command, image should contain at least journal.log file (installation log) and rpm.dnf.log file (in case of system packages update was executed).

The Linux packages mentioned here will be resolved. All other dependency resolvers will be disabled even if the 'resolveDependencies' parameter is set to True.

No operating system packages will be scanned.

False

No

Serverless Settings

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

serverless.provider 

Provider of serverless functions

N/A

N/A

aws-lambda

No

serverless.scanFunctions 

Whether or to run the serverless functions

Scans serverless functions

Will not scan serverless functions

False

No

serverless.includes 

Comma, space or line-delimited list of GLOB patterns specifying which serverless functions to run.

N/A

N/A

Empty string

No

serverless.excludes 

Comma, space or line-delimited list of GLOB patterns specifying which serverless functions to exclude.

N/A

N/A

Empty string

No

serverless.region 

The provider's region.

N/A

N/A

Empty string

No

serverless.maxFunctions 

The maximum number of functions that can be run.

N/A

N/A

10

No

Artifactory Settings

For more information regarding Artifactory integration, see here.

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

artifactory.enableScan 

Whether to run Artifactory repository scanner

Runs the Artifactory repository scanner (not the Unified Agent).

Will not run the Artifactory repository scanner

False

No

artifactory.url 

Artifactory host URL.

NOTES

  • Required when artifactory.enableScan is True.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

artifactory.accessToken 

Artifactory access token.

NOTES: 

  • Required when artifactory.enableScan is True

  • When artifactory.userName & artifactory.userPassword are available; If all 3 parameters are available - the username/password have priority)

N/A

N/A

No default

No

artifactory.repoKeys 

List of repository names space/comma-delimited.

NOTE: Required when artifactory.enableScan is True.


N/A

N/A

No default

No

artifactory.userName 

Artifactory user name

NOTE: Required when artifactory.enableScan is True, unless  artifactory.accessToken is available.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

artifactory.userPassword

Artifactory user password

NOTE: Required when artifactory.enableScan is True, unless  artifactory.accessToken is available.

N/A

N/A

No default

No

artifactory.includes

Comma, space or line separated list of GLOB patterns specifying which Artifactory repositories/folders/files to scan.

N/A

N/A

Empty

No

artifactory.excludes

Comma, space or line separated list of GLOB patterns specifying which Artifactory repositories/folders/files to exclude.

N/A

N/A

Empty

No

Proxy Settings 

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

proxy.host 

Proxy hostname

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

-proxy.host

proxy.port 

Proxy port number

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

-proxy.port

proxy.user 

Proxy username

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

-proxy.user

proxy.pass 

Proxy password

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

-proxy.pass

SCM Settings

For customers using SCM (Git, SVN, Mercurial), define the relevant settings (type, user, password).

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Configuration File Parameter

Description and Expected Behavior

If True

If False

Default

Command Line Parameter Available?

scm.type

A comma-delimited list of all scm types (Git, SVN, mercurial (select one).

NOTE: Required if remote repository connection is requested.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

scm.user 

Username to connect to the remote repository.

NOTE: Required if the repository is private and requires credentials. 

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

scm.pass 

Password to connect to the remote repository.

NOTES:

  • When using SSH to fetch a Git repository, set this value to the passphrase of your private key (as specified in scm.ppk). If there is no passphrase, then leave this parameter empty.

  • Required if the repository is private and requires credentials.

  • A Personal Access Token (PAT) can be used in place of a password if the scm.url is https.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

scm.ppk 

Path to the private key.

NOTE: Required if the repository requires an SSH connection.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

scm.url 

URL of the remote repository. e.g: https://github.com/XXXX/XXXX.git .

For on-premises repositories, provide the URL of the on-premises instance.

NOTE: Required if the remote repository connection is requested.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

scm.branch 

Name of the branch to scan.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

scm.tag 

Name of the tag to scan.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

No

scm.npmInstall 

Whether or not to perform 'npm install' when package.json was found

Performs 'npm install' when package.json is found

Will not perform 'npm install' when package.json is found

True

No

scm.npmInstallTimeoutMinutes 

npm install timeout in minutes

N/A

N/A

15 minutes

No

scm.repositoriesFile 

A URL of JSON file that contains a list of remote repositories.

N/A

N/A

The default value is ""

-scm.repositoriesFile

Configuring the Unified Agent by Environment Variables

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All the parameters available in the Unified Agent configuration file can be also set using environment variables.

The naming convention for the environment variables:

For example the maven.runPreStep parameter can be set using the WS_MAVEN_RUNPRESTEP environment variable.

Environment variables can be used in several ways:

Command Line Parameters

NOTE: This table is not a complete list of command-line parameters. For command-line parameters that have corresponding (standard) configuration file parameters, refer to the Command Line Parameter Available column on the right side of the above tables. 

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Parameter

Type

Description

Required

Default

-c

String

Configuration file name (including file path).

No

The default file name is 'wss-unified-agent.config'

  • Starting from version 19.1.1, the default file is 'wss-unified-agent.config'. 
    If this file is not found, then the Unified Agent searches for a 'whitesource-fs-agent.config' file.

  • When using the -detect flag, the generated configuration file is wss-generated-file.config and it should be explicitly stated: 
    -c wss-generated-file.config

-d

String

Comma-separated list of directories and/or files to scan

No

N/A

-f

String

File list path

No

N/A

-v

String

Query the Unified Agent for its version

No

N/A

-archiveFastUnpack 

Boolean

Fast unpacking of archive files

No

False

-requestFiles

String

Comma-separated list of paths to offline request files. 

Regarding the priority of the parameters usage, the Unified Agent searches for the CLI argument, then the configuration file parameter (if not found in the CLI), and then the offline request parameter (if not found in the configuration file).
If multiple request files are provided, then the data from the first offline request is used. Note that the 'projectName', 'projectToken', and 'projectVersion' are fetched from each request file.

If '-d' is explicitly provided when '-requestFiles' is also used, then the Unified Agent does not scan the local folder (which '-d' points to). Instead, it scans only the offline request file(s) provided. '-d' will be ignored in this scenario.

No

When a single request file is provided and if neither 'productName' or 'productToken' values are set in the CLI, Config and Offline request file, then the default product name is 'My Product'.

-whiteSourceFolderPath 

String

A path to the 'whiteSource' directory. The WhiteSource folder is created when checking policies and creating an offline file. Path can be absolute or relative. 

No

The default location of the 'whitesource' folder is the working directory from which the Unified Agent is run.

-requirementsFileIncludes 

(there is only python)

String

Comma-separated list of dependency filenames specifying which files to be scanned for dependencies.

No

requirements.txt

-noConfig

Boolean

When set to True, you can run a scan without using a configuration file. However, in this case, parameters  -projectToken or -project 
and -apiKey are mandatory.

Unless explicitly provided, the default wss.url parameter value is https://saas.whitesourcesoftware.com/agent

No

False

-detect


When this parameter is added, the Unified Agent will analyze the scanned files and will create a new .config file with the relevant configuration parameters. The new configuration file will contain the resolveDependencies parameters according to the discovered package managers. For each manifest file, we will set the relevant parameter to True.

Usage:  java -jar unified-agent.jar -detect 

For example, if a bower.json file is found in the project folder, bower.resolveDependencies will be set to True in the newly created configuration file.

No

By default, the detection is based on the current directory where the Unified Agent jar is located. To change this, add the -d parameter.

For example use:  java -jar unified-agent.jar -detect -d projectFolder

-help or -h

Boolean

The Unified Agent prints the parameters that can be used from the CLI. 

No


-logLevel

String

Specifies the minimal log level printed to stdout.

No

info

-proxy

String

Proxy info in the following format:
scheme://<user>:<password>@host:port/

No