diff --git a/jenkins/osmclient/SETTINGS b/jenkins/osmclient/SETTINGS
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+#
+#   Copyright 2017 Sandvine
+#
+#   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#   You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#   limitations under the License.
+#
+#
+# this variable holds the name of the container image needed to build or run this product
+export OSM_BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:16.04
+#
+# this variable holds the name of the container to be used to build a package
+# if this container already exists, the build process can skip the container build
+export OSM_BUILD_CONTAINER=osmclient
+#
+# this variable holds the name of the container to be used to run a package
+# if this container already exists, the run processes can skip the container build
+export OSM_RUNTIME_CONTAINER=osmclient
diff --git a/jenkins/osmclient/start_build b/jenkins/osmclient/start_build
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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+#   Copyright 2017 Sandvine
+#
+#   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+#   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+#   You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+#   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+#   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+#   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+#   limitations under the License.
+# 
+# Authors:
+#    - Michael Marchetti - mmarchetti@sandvine.com
+# 
+
+HERE=$(realpath $(dirname $0))
+OSM_JENKINS=$(dirname $HERE)
+. $OSM_JENKINS/common/all_funcs
+
+# SET YOU MDG repository name here
+export OSM_MDG=osmclient
+OSM_load_config
+
+NOTEST=""
+if [ "$1" = "--notest" ]; then
+    shift
+    NOTEST="y"
+fi
+
+OSM_git_checkout "$@"
+
+apt-get update
+apt-get install -y make
+make build_tools
+make test
+make package
+
+RC=$?
+INFO "done, RC=$RC"
+exit $RC