Administering Rational ClearCase
- Rational ClearCase network planning and administration
- License servers and license administration
Most Rational® ClearCase® applications
and commands (cleartool commands, for example,
or GUIs such as the Rational ClearCase Explorer)
require a license to run. Rational ClearCase can
use Rational Common Licensing,
which is based on the FLEXlm license management tool from GLOBEtrotter
Software, Inc., or ClearCase Licensing, a
proprietary licensing scheme.
- Administering the Rational ClearCase registry
The Rational ClearCase registry
is a central repository of information about shared resources such
as VOBs and views.
- Rational ClearCase network administration in mixed environments
A Rational ClearCase environment
includes hosts that run Windows and hosts that run the UNIX system or Linux
is said to be a mixed environment.
- VOB and view access control
Rational ClearCase supports
a rich set of access controls on versioned objects.
- VOB administration
Because VOBs are the principal repository for artifacts under Rational ClearCase control,
VOB administration is one of the Rational ClearCase administrator’s
most important tasks.
- VOB datatypes and administrative VOB hierarchies
There are many types of VOB metadata. Some are unique to a particular
VOB, but many must be managed consistently across a group of VOBs that store
related artifacts (components of a UCM project, for example). These topics
introduce VOB metadata and describe how to use administrative VOB hierarchies
to simplify sharing of type objects among related VOBs.
- Moving VOBs and relocating VOB data
Rational ClearCase includes
tools for moving data and metadata to another VOB and for moving entire VOBs
to another disk or host. You may need to use these tools to reorganize VOB
directories, redistribute data storage, or rebalance server loads.
- Views and view administration
A view provides a workspace where users access versions
of file and directory elements that are under Rational ClearCase control.
Views can also contain view-private file system objects (such as ordinary
files and directories) that are not under Rational ClearCase control.
- Backing up critical Rational ClearCase data
Like all databases, VOBs, views, and the Rational ClearCase registry
have special backup and restore requirements.
- Restoring critical Rational ClearCase data
If you have implemented a sound backup strategy for Rational ClearCase data,
it should be easy to restore that data, if necessary.
- Periodic maintenance
Periodic attention to storage management and repository integrity
is an important administrative function. These topics describe VOB and view
storage management tasks, the checkvob utility, and the Rational ClearCase scheduler,
which you can use to automate many periodic maintenance chores.
- Importing data
Rational ClearCase includes
several utilities for importing data from other configuration management systems
or directly from the file system itself.
- Troubleshooting
These topics cover a variety of procedures that administrators
might need to follow to find and fix problems.
- Improving client host performance
- Improving VOB host performance
- Configuring cross-platform file-system access
- Rational ClearCase and Windows domains
- Configuring non-ClearCase access on Linux or the UNIX system
You can configure a Rational ClearCase host
running Linux® or the UNIX® system
to support access to VOBs and dynamic views from computers that do
not run Rational ClearCase.
- Configuring Rational ClearCase for high availability
- Estimating VOB size
If you can estimate the number of elements, versions, and derived
objects that a VOB will ultimately contain, you can compute a very rough estimate
of the size of a VOB that can accommodate them. VOB storage includes
a database and pools. On Windows®, the database and pools must
reside on a single disk partition. On Linux or the UNIX system, the pools can be located on
a different partition or host, using symbolic links.
- About CM Server
Change Management (CM) Server provides server-side support for
WAN interfaces to Rational ClearQuest® and Rational ClearCase.
- Configuring CM server support for the Rational ClearCase remote client
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