Agile Central - Jenkins: Connector Error status_code 403

Products

• CA Agile Central On Premise (Rally)
• CA Agile Central SaaS (Rally)

Issue/Introduction

Error in log:

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CA Agile Central BuildConnector for Jenkins version 1.1.3 starting at: 2018-08-29 11:51:53 Z with pid: 3420 
curdir: H:\JenkinConnector
command: python ac_build_connector sample.yml

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[2018-08-29 11:52:20 Z] INFO: JenkinsConnection.connect - Connecting to Jenkins
[2018-08-29 11:52:22 Z] FATAL: JenkinsConnection._getJenkinsVersion(148) - <ConfigurationError> <title>Jenkins</title> status_code: 403
[2018-08-29 11:52:23 Z] ERROR: BuildConnectorRunner.run - <title>Jenkins</title> status_code: 403
[2018-08-29 11:52:25 Z] INFO: BuildConnectorRunner.run - run completed
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Environment

Release:
Component: ACSAAS

Cause

This can be caused when using matrix based security in Jenkins and the account the connector is using does not have access to the /manage page.

Resolution

We recommend that the user account have full access to the Jenkins instance.

However to resolve this particular error, grant the user account Overall -> Administer access as seen in the image below.

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