Planning your URIs

URIs have an important role in Jazz™ architecture. When you plan your deployment and installation of the Rational® Engineering Lifecycle Manager, you must decide which URI to use for the server.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager and Jazz Team Server generate absolute URIs to resources that are used for the following purposes: stored artifacts, mail notifications, feeds, copying items to the system clipboard, web access, and for stable resource identification for all applications. These URIs are rooted by a "Public URI" that is declared for the application or Jazz Team Server.

In many instances, these generated URIs persist in the repository databases because various stored resources contain URI links between them and outbound links to resources on other applications and servers. These URIs might also be referred to in contexts that are outside of the local network. For example, a URI might be referred to from another Internet domain or outside a corporate firewall.

You must choose a public URI that is fully qualified and accessible from anywhere in the network where users need to connect. If necessary, a URI that is based on a stable host name can be rerouted through a domain name server (DNS).

Note: In a limited number of scenarios, you can change the server URL later by using the server rename feature. For details, see Changing the public URL by using server rename. However, using server rename is a potentially disruptive procedure. Correcting the stored links into the server from all other applications and systems can be difficult or impossible. Also, server rename might not be supported in your deployment, depending on the types of integrations with other products being used. Therefore, be sure to plan your deployment carefully so that a rename is not needed.

The public URI must be configured while Jazz Team Server and the applications are set up. The public URI can be set, validated, and tested in the Jazz Team Server setup wizard.

When you choose a public URI, you make the following decisions:

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