In order to do global configuration, it is necessary to be logged in as a global administrator.

Customization

Home page / Component Service

To customize the Home page for your Sonar instance : simply press "Configure ON" to access customization. You are then presented with the configuration page on which you can customize 5 things :

• Add, remove and move columns in the table
• Select the column that will be sorted by default
• Select whether you want to see the treemap on the home page
• Select what are the default metric to use in the treemap (Press Set as Default)

Backup / Restore

The whole Sonar configuration can be backed up and restored. This includes : Quality profiles (rules + alerts), manual metrics, events categories, global settings section (plugins) and customization.

WARNING When restoring , it will wipe ALL existing configuration No information about project configuration gets backed up (exclusions, links, quality profile associated...)