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Administering HCL VersionVault
Learn about performing administrative tasks for an HCL VersionVault community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, VersionVault server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
Moving VOBs and relocating VOB data
HCL VersionVault 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.
Moving VOBs
You cannot use an ordinary file-system copy utility to copy a VOB to another location. You must follow special procedures that maintain the integrity of VOB data and preserve permissions and ownership on VOB storage directories.
Moving a VOB on Linux or the UNIX system
There are two primary use cases for moving a VOB on Linux or the UNIX system: moving a VOB to a host that has the same architecture (binary data format) and moving a VOB to a host that has a different architecture.
If the VOB has remote pools
When you move a VOB that has remote storage pools, additional preparation is needed.

Administering
Learn how to administer the product.
- Administering HCL VersionVault
  Learn about performing administrative tasks for an HCL VersionVault community including managing software licenses, user and group accounts, VersionVault server and client hosts, shared data, and the network that connects them.
  - HCL VersionVault network planning and administration
  - License servers and license administration
    Most HCL VersionVault applications and commands (cleartool commands, for example, or GUIs such as the VersionVault Explorer) require a license to run.
  - Reconfiguring VersionVault to use a different JRE
    When you change the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for HCL VersionVault, you must reconfigure the product to make it work with the new JRE.
  - Administering the HCL VersionVault registry
    The HCL VersionVault registry is a central repository of information about shared resources such as VOBs and views.
  - HCL VersionVault network administration in mixed environments
    An HCL VersionVault environment that includes hosts that run Windows and hosts that run the UNIX system or Linux is said to be a mixed environment.
  - Overview of security considerations
    As an administrator, you are responsible for the security of your HCL VersionVault deployment.
  - VOB and view access control
    HCL VersionVault supports a rich set of access controls on versioned objects.
  - VOB administration
    Because VOBs are the principal repository for artifacts under HCL VersionVault control, VOB administration is one of the HCL VersionVault 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
    HCL VersionVault 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.
    - Relocating elements to another VOB
      The cleartool relocate command moves elements to another VOB.
    - Moving VOBs
      You cannot use an ordinary file-system copy utility to copy a VOB to another location. You must follow special procedures that maintain the integrity of VOB data and preserve permissions and ownership on VOB storage directories.
      - Special procedures for replicated VOBs
        If you are moving a VOB replica to a new host, take the following steps first.
      - Moving a VOB on Windows®
        There are two primary use cases for moving a VOB on Windows®: moving a VOB to a host in the same Windows domain (or to a different partition on a Windows host), and moving a VOB to a host in another Windows domain.
      - Moving a VOB on Linux or the UNIX system
        There are two primary use cases for moving a VOB on Linux or the UNIX system: moving a VOB to a host that has the same architecture (binary data format) and moving a VOB to a host that has a different architecture.
        If the VOB has remote pools
        When you move a VOB that has remote storage pools, additional preparation is needed.
        Consolidating remote pools
        Certain VOB move scenarios require you to consolidate remote pools and replace them with local ones.
        If the VOB is exported for non-VersionVault access
        Before you begin to move a VOB that has been exported for non-VersionVault access, stop any export views that export the VOB. After the move is complete, restart the export views.
        Moving a VOB between hosts that run Linux or the UNIX system and have the same architecture
        Moving a VOB between hosts that run Linux or the UNIX system and have different architectures
        Moving an ACL-protected VOB to a different Linux or UNIX platform
        Because of different ACLs mechanisms, ACLs cannot be copied easily between different Linux or UNIX platforms.
      - Moving a VOB to a different operating system type
        When you move a VOB from a Windows® host to a host running Linux or the UNIX system or vice versa, all user identity information stored in the VOB storage directory and VOB database must change. The binary data format of the VOB database must change also.
      - Moving a VOB to network-attached storage
        All procedures for moving VOBs refer to the architecture, or binary data format, of the VOB host. VOB database formats are architecture-dependent, and the database must be reformatted if the VOB is moved to a host of a different architecture.
  - Views and view administration
    A view provides a workspace where users access versions of file and directory elements that are under HCL VersionVault control. Views can also contain view-private file system objects (such as ordinary files and directories) that are not under HCL VersionVault control.
  - Backing up critical HCL VersionVault data
    Like all databases, VOBs, views, and the HCL VersionVault registry have special backup and restore requirements.
  - Restoring critical HCL VersionVault data
    If you have implemented a sound backup strategy for HCL VersionVault 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 HCL VersionVault scheduler, which you can use to automate many periodic maintenance chores.
  - Importing data
    HCL VersionVault 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
  - HCL VersionVault and Windows® domains
  - Configuring non-VersionVault access on Linux® or the UNIX system
    You can configure an HCL VersionVault host running Linux® or the UNIX system to support access to VOBs and dynamic views from computers that do not run HCL VersionVault.
  - Configuring HCL VersionVault 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.
  - Administering the VersionVault WAN server
  - About VersionVault WAN server parallel view loading
  - Administering and using CMI task-provider integrations
    HCL VersionVault supports integrations with task providers such as HCL Compass through the Change Management Interface (CMI). The integrations require some configuration tasks, after which you can work with UCM activities or base VersionVault branches that are associated with the tasks.
- Administering platforms for HCL VersionVault
  Learn how to perform HCL VersionVault administrative tasks on supported platforms.
- Administering HCL VersionVault MultiSite
  Learn to configure and manage the HCL VersionVault MultiSite environment to support development activities at different locations.

If the VOB has remote pools

When you move a VOB that has remote storage pools, additional preparation is needed.

About this task

Any of the procedures in this section can be used to move a VOB that has remote pools. Before you begin the move, determine whether the VOB has any remote pools and verify that the pools are accessible after the move.

Procedure

Determine whether the VOB has any remote storage pools.

cleartool lspool –long –invob /proj/libpub | egrep '(^pool|link)'
pool "cdft" pool "ddft" pool "sdft" pool "s_2" pool storage link target pathname "/net/vobsvr04/vvault_pools/s_2"
The output of lspool shows that this VOB has one remote pool, s_2.
Verify that the remote pools are accessible on the target host.
Moving a VOB storage directory does not move any of its remote storage pools. You must verify that the new VOB host can use the same global pathnames used by the current VOB host to access each remote storage pool:
- If you are moving the VOB to another location on the same host, these global pathnames remain valid.
- If you are moving the VOB to a different host, log on to that host and verify that all the remote storage pools can be accessed from that host.

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