Administrators of Rational® ClearCase® and Rational ClearCase LT are responsible
for tasks such as creating and maintaining data repositories, managing servers,
and administering user and group accounts. Of interest to Rational ClearCase administrators
are the following subjects:
- Managing client and server hosts
- Administering licenses
- Administering the Rational ClearCase registry,
a central directory of shared information
- Managing user and group accounts
- Creating and managing VOBs (versioned object bases, or data repositories)
- Creating and managing views (user workspaces)
- Backing up and restoring critical data
- Importing data from other configuration management systems
- Maintaining and periodically troubleshooting the configuration management
environment
- Tuning client and server hosts for better performance
- Configuring optional vendor access software
- Configuring the Rational ClearCase Web
Platform, the Rational ClearCase Web
interface, and the Rational ClearCase Remote
Client
Information resources for Rational ClearCase administration
The
following Rational ClearCase administration
resources are available for all supported platforms:
- IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearCase
MultiSite Release Notes
- Information about new features and defect fixes in the current Rational ClearCase release
- IBM Rational ClearCase, ClearCase
MultiSite, and ClearCase LT Installation and Upgrade Guide
- Instructions for planning and implementing sitewide and
computer-specific Rational ClearCase installation
- IBM Rational ClearCase Administrator's
Guide
- Features information for experienced system administrators
who are responsible for managing a Rational ClearCase community,
including users, computers, shared data, and the networks that connect them.
- IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite Administrator's
Guide
- Information about configuring and maintaining Rational ClearCase MultiSite®,
including creating, managing, and synchronizing replicas, managing mastership,
and using Rational ClearCase MultiSite for
VOB backup and interoperability. This information is relevant only if you
have installed Rational ClearCase MultiSite on
your computer.
- IBM Rational ClearCase Platforms Guide
- Information about Rational ClearCase features
and functionality that is unique to given platforms
- IBM Rational ClearCase Command Reference
- Rational ClearCase command-line
reference information
The following resources are available on Windows® systems
only:
- Using
CAL
- Information about using the ClearCase Automation
Library (CAL), a COM interface to access and manipulate Rational ClearCase objects
on Windows platforms
- Using
the MMC ClearCase administration
interface
- Information about using the Microsoft® Management Console (MMC)
application to perform Rational ClearCase administrative
tasks on Rational ClearCase clients
and across Rational ClearCase networks.
Tasks include managing VOBs, views, hosts, logs, and Rational ClearCase registry
data.