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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.
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.
Administrative VOB hierarchies and global types
Managing type objects that are used in a group of related VOBs is greatly simplified by creating administrative VOB hierarchies that can share globally defined type objects.
Adding a VOB to an administrative VOB hierarchy
Adding a VOB to an administrative VOB hierarchy gives it access to global types defined in the administrative VOB.

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.
    - VOB datatypes
      A general understanding of VOB datatypes can place many administrative tasks in context.
    - Administrative VOB hierarchies and global types
      Managing type objects that are used in a group of related VOBs is greatly simplified by creating administrative VOB hierarchies that can share globally defined type objects.
      - Adding a VOB to an administrative VOB hierarchy
        Adding a VOB to an administrative VOB hierarchy gives it access to global types defined in the administrative VOB.
      - Listing an AdminVOB hyperlink
        To find out whether a VOB is part of an administrative VOB hierarchy, you can list its AdminVOB hyperlink.
      - Restrictions on administrative VOB hierarchies
      - If an administrative VOB becomes unavailable
        When an administrative VOB or PVOB is unavailable, all other VOBs in its administrative hierarchy are affected.
      - Removing a VOB from an administrative VOB hierarchy
        To remove a VOB from an administrative VOB hierarchy, remove its AdminVOB hyperlink and then remove all of the global definition hyperlinks that support the global types in it. (You cannot use these procedures on a UCM component VOB or PVOB.)
      - Removing an administrative VOB
    - Working with global types
      In general, all operations on a global type or a local copy of a global type apply to the global type and all its local copies.
    - Replicated administrative VOB hierarchies
      When you use administrative VOB hierarchies (including those created by UCM) in an HCL VersionVault MultiSite environment, special considerations apply to replication.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Adding a VOB to an administrative VOB hierarchy

Adding a VOB to an administrative VOB hierarchy gives it access to global types defined in the administrative VOB.

About this task

You can add a VOB to an existing administrative VOB hierarchy by removing an existing AdminVOB hyperlink and adding two new ones. This operation does not disrupt existing type definitions, because the hyperlink between a local copy and its associated global type remains intact.

To add a VOB to an administrative VOB hierarchy, use the following procedure.

Procedure

Remove the AdminVOB hyperlink at the point where you want to add the new VOB.
For example, if you want to add a VOB between \admin and \admin_re as illustrated in Administrative VOB hierarchies and global types, use cleartool describe to list the AdminVOB hyperlink and cleartool rmhlink to remove it.
cleartool describe –l vob:\admin
... Hyperlinks: AdminVOB@40@\admin_re <- vob:\admin_re
cleartool rmhlink –c "insert admin VOB" AdminVOB@40@\admin_re
Removed hyperlink "AdminVOB@40@\admin_re"
Link the new VOB to its superior in the hierarchy.
The following command creates an AdminVOB hyperlink from the VOB \admin_lb to the VOB \admin

cleartool mkhlink –c "link admin_lb to admin" AdminVOB vob:\admin_lb vob:\admin
Created hyperlink "AdminVOB@40@\admin_lb".
Link the VOB you removed from the hierarchy in Step 1 back into the hierarchy.
cleartool mkhlink –c "link re to admin_lb" AdminVOB vob:\re vob:\admin_lb
Created hyperlink "AdminVOB@40@\re".

This also reconnects the VOB \re with the hierarchy, because its link to \admin_re is still intact.

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